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“Her share of cost became enormous,” said Anna’s “Her share of cost became enormous,” said Anna’s “Her share of cost became enormous,” said Anna’s mother and caretaker Connie Herrera. “It was an increase mother and caretaker Connie Herrera. “It was an increase mother and caretaker Connie Herrera. “It was an increase of about $400 a month.”of about $400 a month.”

Connie asked if Anna could go back to receiving the Connie asked if Anna could go back to receiving the Connie asked if Anna could go back to receiving the lower benefit payments she had gotten before her father’s lower benefit payments she had gotten before her father’s lower benefit payments she had gotten before her father’s

death so that her death so that her Medi-Cal share of Medi-Cal share of cost would be lower.cost would be lower.

“I was told Anna did “I was told Anna did not have the option to not have the option to stay on the payment stay on the payment program she was program she was already on. It was already on. It was ridiculous because ridiculous because the higher benefit the higher benefit the higher benefit payments were payments were payments were actually hurting her,” actually hurting her,” actually hurting her,” explained Connie. “I explained Connie. “I explained Connie. “I tried to call Medi-Cal tried to call Medi-Cal tried to call Medi-Cal

for help but no one was answering. Then a friend and told for help but no one was answering. Then a friend and told me about Legal Services of Northern California.”me about Legal Services of Northern California.”

Connie called and spoke with Jane at LSNC. Connie called and spoke with Jane at LSNC.

“Jane asked me what Anna did. I told her that even “Jane asked me what Anna did. I told her that even though Anna was 25 years old, she only had the mental though Anna was 25 years old, she only had the mental capacity of a 7- to 9-year old, but she did work a few capacity of a 7- to 9-year old, but she did work a few hours a month shredding documents for a friend,” hours a month shredding documents for a friend,” said Connie.

Anna’s love for shredding began at home. Connie would place documents to be shredded in a special basket for

Anna to find and shred. Anna loved shredding so much Anna to find and shred. Anna loved shredding so much Anna to find and shred. Anna loved shredding so much Anna to find and shred. Anna loved shredding so much she began shredding anything she could find including she began shredding anything she could find including she began shredding anything she could find including she began shredding anything she could find including important documents that Connie wanted to keep. important documents that Connie wanted to keep. important documents that Connie wanted to keep.

“One time I gave her the telephone directory to shred because she loved shredding so much,” said Connie.

Eventually, this passion for shredding turned into a job for Anna. One of Connie’s acquaintances offered to pay for Anna. One of Connie’s acquaintances offered to pay Anna to shred documents a couple of times a month. Anna to shred documents a couple of times a month.

Jane at LSNC identified this job as the solution to Connie Jane at LSNC identified this job as the solution to Connie and Anna’s high share of cost problem with and Anna’s high share of cost problem with Medi-Cal.

Jane informed Connie that Anna’s job Jane informed Connie that Anna’s job qualified her for the little-known 250% qualified her for the little-known 250% California Working Disabled California Working Disabled Program. This Medi-Cal Program. This Medi-Cal program brought Anna’s program brought Anna’s monthly premium down to monthly premium down to only $20 a month. only $20 a month.

“I would have never known to look up something like this. Even after Jane told me about the program, there were people at Medi-Cal I called who did not know about it,” said Connie.

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Share. Repost. Like.It’s almost over.

Soon, we’ll finally make several important political decisions, including who will be tasked with running the country for the next four years.

Decisions that may or may not be shaped by our Internet addiction.

“You didn’t build that.” The 47 per-cent. Big Bird. Binders full of women. Romnesia. Horses and bayonets.

Issues? Sure, we’re talking about them—but in easily digestible bits that make yesterday’s sound bites seem like fusty old-fashioned political commentary.

When it comes to the 2012 elec-tion season, it’s a meme, meme, meme, meme world—a social media-fueled race propelled by endless Facebook posts, Twitter blasts and Tumblr feeds.

Romney’s “binders full of women” comment during the October 16 debate, for example, had its own Face-book page (with nearly 100,000 “likes”) and Tumblr feed before the televised showdown was even over.

Share. Repost. Like.Certainly, it’s funny and entertain-

ing and it serves, inarguably, to draw more people into the conversation. A new study released by the Pew Re-search Center’s Internet & American Life Project, for example, shows that 66 percent of all social-media users “have employed the platforms to post their thoughts about civic and politi-cal issues.”

And such users, the study reveals, tend to skew younger and female with politically liberal or ideological viewpoints.

How that actually breaks down when it comes to cold, hard votes, however, won’t be known until at November 6 at the very soonest.

Until then, we’ll continue to share, repost and like. But it’s almost time to disconnect from the fray and move beyond the memes.

It’s almost, finally, time to vote. And for now at least, there’s no app for that.

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Miss Piggy, ’cause she always wants to be prissy, dressing nice, sassy. I have two little ones, and we have seen The Muppets Take [Manhattan].

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Double illegal?Re “Vote with us!” (SN&R Opinion, October 18):

Thanks for clearing up the deal with Proposition 35. I always wondered when people told me it was to stop [the] sex trafficking of children why we needed a new law for that. As far as I know, all these arrests we see in the paper are proof that molesting kids is already illegal, and it looks like the police are doing a decent job of arresting the pervs who do it.

Now that I know somebody will be getting tax money from this proposition, I know it’s not what it seems to be.

So when are you going to go after these two-faced props, anyway? They shouldn’t be able to get away with hiding who will get the money or with making it sound like something is legal when it’s not.

Mitch MartinsonSacramento

Yee in District 4Re “Vote with us!” (SN&R Opinion, October 18):

Sacramento is at a crossroads. We continue to experience chal-lenging economic times and are experiencing a continued flight of businesses from our community. Joe Yee brings the insight of a success-ful local business with proven leadership abilities.

I served with Joe Yee on the city’s General Plan Advisory Committee for four years. Joe led this successful effort to create a new general plan and vision for the city which was unanimously supported by committee members representing each council district and diverse interest groups, which was adopted by the [Sacramento] City Council.

This is the leadership we need in District 4. It is one thing to have a great idea, it is another to bring the business acumen and leadership skills to bridge diverse viewpoints and develop consensus in the divisive political environment we have today.

Steven KahnSacramento

A psychic prediction?Re “Vote with us!” (SN&R Opinion, October 18):

Hold on to your coffee cup: [Barack] Obama by a landslide—or wins easily.

Why do I say this? Because Republicans and their tea-party mistress have tried 50 different ways to blame and tag President Obama for failing to improve the economy but to no avail. Republicans are a day late and a dollar short as usual.

Another problem for the Republicans is that the economy has turned around. Any of you who don’t live in ivory towers have seen the change every time you walk out the door. People are having a good time again, eating out, partying till the break of dawn, shopping, spend-ing money.

There are even stats to go along with this consummate turnaround: The housing market is making a comeback after years in hiatus; housing prices and sales are up around the country; stock markets have surged to the highest point in years; car sales are up; retail sales are up; and construction workers are back on the job.

So, my question is, who are you going to believe: [Mitt] Romney and Republican lies or your own eyes and common sense?

Ron LoweNevada City

Let the time fit the crimeRe “Blue state, red meat” and “Minority report” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R Frontlines, September 27, and October 4):

Thank you for reporting on Proposition 36.

California’s three-strikes law is a form of enslavement. People punished by three strikes are lifers, because their sentence will state 25-[years]-to-life or more. This is crazy. The punishment shouldn’t be worse than the crime committed.

Resentencing on crimes for which someone has already served prison time is against our constitu-tion, plus, it is just cruel. I believe victims deserve to see their offend-ers locked up, but the sentence needs to be proportionate. Something is terribly wrong and unjust when property theft becomes more serious than murder.

I am voting yes on Proposition 36. Let the time fit the crime.

Elizabeth Stewartvia email

Don’t generalize about homeless peopleRe “War on homelessness” by Nick Miller (SN&R Midtown&Down, September 27) and “SN&R doesn’t really see homeless” (SN&R Letters, October 18):

Nick Miller’s piece is some of the most accurate local journalism on homelessness I have seen in a long time. Most news on the subject is extremely biased. Having 19 years of field experience in homelessness, including service-provider experience, I can say so with a level of authority.

I can also state with authority, concerning David Gonzalez’s letter on October 18 addressing homeless issues, that he is highly misinformed. I interact with homeless on a daily basis also, and have for a long time. It is my job. This blanket assumption made by him and many people that the majority of homeless are home-less because of mental illness and/or drug addiction, or they are somehow to blame for their misfortune, has no factual basis [whatsoever], and in reality, these people’s circumstances vary as much as mine or yours from every other person on the planet.

We do not know these people’s history, and/or what lead them to where they are. To assume they are to blame, that they choose that life or otherwise, is purely ignorant. We

have a responsibility as productive members of society to avoid such ignorant acts for the humanity of everyone.

Sonny IversonSacramento

Morality at the pollsRe “Vote with us!” (SN&R Opinion, October 18):

Proposition 39 on the California ballot, which would close a corporate-tax loophole, is a moral issue. Our faith principles lead us to support it enthusiastically.

Since 2009, the state has discriminated against California-based businesses that create jobs here. It has allowed out-of-state businesses to pay a

lower tax rate than California businesses. This is unjust, and it drives businesses and jobs out of the state. Prop. 39 will do away with this discrimination and help keep jobs here.

Prop. 39 also will provide more jobs in California by creating green-energy jobs. By being better stewards of creation, we can create good jobs with a real future.

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Backers of Proposition 32 are portraying it as afresh, nonpartisan attempt to clean upCalifornia’s political system. But thestatewide measure, in fact, has originsthat date back both to legislation crafted15 years ago by conservative lawyers andalso to a pair of propositions that soughtto ban unions from taking part in whathas become the most important part ofthe political process: raising and spend-ing money.

Although voters rejected those previ-ous measures, wealthy corporate interestshave decided to return to the ballot boxagain this year with Prop. 32, an initiativethat not only is similar to the previoustwo, but also, in some ways, much moreextreme.

The idea that eventually led to Prop.32 was hatched in the late 1990s by attor-neys paid by the corporate-fundedAmerican Legislative Exchange Council.They wrote anti-union legislation that wasinspired by conservative charter-schoolactivists in Orange County, who put aproposition on the California ballot thatwould have radically undermined unionparticipation in state politics.

Backed by then-Gov. Pete Wilson,Proposition 226 sought to prohibit unionsfrom using member dues for political pur-poses. It was funded with five- andsix-figure checks from a handful of über-rich conservatives such as Carl LindnerJr., Richard Scaife and Jerrold Perenchio.Voters, however, defeated the measure bya seven-point margin.

In 2005, some of the same corporateelites returned with Proposition 75, thistime using Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggeras their salesman. They polished theproposition through ALEC’s national net-work of anti-labor lawyers, but Prop. 75was basically the same as Prop. 226. Itwould have undermined unions’ abilitiesto use payroll deductions to fund politicalexpenditures, and California votersrejected the measure by the same seven-point margin.

Although Prop. 32 is being billed bysupporters as more evenhanded than 75and 226, it in fact goes beyond the long-time conservative strategy of requiringunions to obtain annual written consentfrom their members before using pay-check deductions on political campaigns.Prop. 32 would enforce an outright banon union money in politics by making itillegal for unions to give contributions tocandidates.

Prop. 32’s sponsors also seem to havelearned from the prior defeats. This time,they’re soft-pedaling the anti-unionmeasure as one that targets all “specialinterests.” The wording of the propositionimplies that it would ban both union andcorporate contributions to candidate com-mittees, thereby stemming the flow oflabor and corporate dollars in elections.

But legal experts who have analyzedProp. 32 say this is disingenuous.

“This measure disproportionatelyaffects unions,” said Michael Salerno,associate director of the Center for Stateand Local Government Law at UCHastings College of the Law in SanFrancisco. He shared an old saying inpolitics: “You’ve got the sizzle, andyou’ve got the beef. The sizzle is thestuff that appeals to voters,” such as thenotion that businesses shouldn’t be ableto make contributions to politicians thatdecide on their contracts.

“The beef is: Unions can’t use payrolldeductions to get political contributionsfrom their members. Corporations don’tuse payroll deductions from theiremployees. They just use their corporateresources,” said Salerno.

In other words, Prop. 32 wouldslightly restrict the channels throughwhich corporations can funnel theirmoney into the political process, but themeasure would absolutely cut off unionmoney, because it outlaws the onemethod available for unions to raise dol-lars on anything approaching the samescale as businesses and wealthy individu-als: paycheck deductions.

“What makes labor powerful is thataggregation,” said Edwin Bender, execu-tive director of the National Institute onMoney in State Politics. “Labor is able toaggregate the small contributions of itsmembers through paycheck deductions tohave a seat at the table alongside bigbusiness.”

Even so, Bender said labor unions arestill overshadowed by the influence ofcorporations: “When you add up all thebusiness dollars together spent in a typi-cal state election, to get a picture of thepeople on the other side of the table fromlabor, labor always ends up beingdwarfed by five to seven times or more.”

This is true in California. Althoughunions such as the Service EmployeesInternational Union; American Federationof State, County and MunicipalEmployees; and the California TeachersAssociation are among the largest singlesources of campaign contributions, manymore corporations rank equally as high.And when you add up all the unionmoney and compare it to the dollars cor-porations spend to elect and influencestate and local leaders, it turns out unionsare not at all in the driver’s seat.

This year, for example, none of thetop-five contributors to candidates andcommittees in California are unions: Twoare tobacco companies, one is a hedge-fund manager, another is Molly Munger(whose wealth is mostly inherited fromher father, the vice chairman of BerkshireHathaway Inc.) and the fifth is theAmerican Cancer Society.

Data from the National Institute onMoney in State Politics shows that corpo-rations have spent roughly $108 millionon this year’s elections in California,while labor unions have contributed only

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Corporations spentroughly $108 millionon this year’sCalifornia elections,while labor unionscontributed only $30 million. And $8 million of thatwent to defeatingProposition 32.

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A glance at the familiarextreme-right facesvying—again—toquash unions withProposition 32

This year’s Proposition 32 isa cut from similar—andunsuccessful—ham-fistedefforts to limit or ban unionsfrom raising money to spendon the political process.

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about $30 million. And $8 million ofthe unions’ total has gone towarddefeating Prop. 32.

The dollar-for-dollar big picturethen is that unions are significantlyweaker than corporations andwealthy individuals under the cur-rent system.

Ken Jacobs, chairman of the UCBerkeley Center for Labor Researchand Education, said it’s important tokeep in mind that unions are raisingmoney from thousands, even millions,of members, while corporations andthe wealthy are representing muchsmaller, more elite interest groups,making comparisons between the twoadversaries inappropriate.

“What unions do is aggregatesmall amounts of money from lots ofpeople,” Jacobs said. “This enablesworking people to come together inpolitics and have some say to be acounterbalance.”

Jacobs said it’s imperative forvoters to also understand that Prop.32 threatens much more than unionpolitical representation. “I think it’sreally important that people appreci-ate what it is that labor fights for,”he said. “When we step back andlook at the role unions played inincreasing the state minimum wage,for example, that’s something unionmembers weren’t directly affectedby, but that’s something all workersin California have benefited from,with the biggest impact on nonunionworkers.”

Jacobs added that this is true forso many protections unions havefought for: public education, laborand environmental standards, taxfairness, anti-poverty programs,occupational health and safety.“There’s a whole slew of areaswhere labor has pitched in toimprove the quality of life for allCalifornians,” he argued.

It’s this wider agenda of under-mining democratization, equalityand environmental justice that mightexplain the motives of some of Prop.32’s biggest funders. Like previousefforts to gut union power inCalifornia, Prop. 32 is funded by

conservatives whose agendastretches far beyond conflictsbetween workers and managementover wages and benefits.

For example, Carl Lindner Jr., amajor backer of 1998’s Prop. 226,was the owner of the ChiquitaBrands International Inc. banana andfruit company. Lindner’s oppositionto environmental regulation andlabor standards ran so deep that hiscompany was accused by the U.S.Department of State of secretlyusing banned pesticides and hiring aparamilitary outfit classified as a“terrorist organization” to attackplantation workers and forcibly dis-place villagers near its Colombianland holdings.

Prop. 32 has similarly extremefunders, whose goals stretch farbeyond a desire to limit collectivebargaining and who perceive unionsas impediments to their largeragenda. For example, HowardAhmanson Jr., one of Prop. 32’sbiggest funders, is well-known forhis anti-gay crusades. He has spentmillions supporting anti-gay politi-cians and ballot propositions likeProposition 8. And, at one time, hebelonged to a Christian sect thatadvocated the death penalty forhomosexuals.

He once explained his overarch-ing political goals as the “totalintegration of biblical law into ourlives.”

Another Prop. 32 funder is GeorgeHume, who owns Basic AmericanFoods, a food-manufacturing com-pany. Hume’s deceased father, JackHume, was a founding member ofRonald Reagan’s Kitchen Cabinet,the far-right unofficial advisory groupcomposed of wealthy businessmenwho pressed Reagan for corporate-taxcuts and major increases in militaryspending. Under George Hume’s con-trol, Basic American Foods hasbattled its low-wage employees onseveral occasions, including a brutal,two-year-long strike at a vegetable-dehydration plant in King City, Calif.,in 2001.

Hume is a major Republicanmoney source and contributesnationally to anti-labor politicians. In2012, he gave $10,000 to WisconsinGov. Scott Walker, who was fightinga recall effort prompted by hisattempt to repeal collective-bargain-ing rights for government workers.

“Prop. 32 is part and parcel of anagenda to move the state and nationto the right,” said Jacobs. “Thiscomes partly from interest in push-ing for privatization which unionsoppose, but also pushing for deregu-lation, reduction in environmentallaws and other areas where unionshave helped to serve as a counterbal-ance to corporate America.” Ω

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“What unions do is aggregatesmall amounts of money from lots

of people. This enables workingpeople to come together in

politics and have some say, to be a counterbalance.”

Ken Jacobschairman, UC Berkeley Center for

Labor Research and Education

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Independent thinkingOn California’s true colors and the  coveted no-party-preference voter

California’s an all-blue all-the-time state, right? Certainly it’s understood we’re going with the incumbent in the presidential race, which is why the Golden State is spared the TV carpet-bombing that the

poor folks in battleground places like Ohio and Nevada have endured for months.

We should be grateful for that blessing. But as far as California being all about indigo, that’s not so true.

The latest statistics show Democrats are 43.3 percent of California’s 17.1 million registered voters, down from

around 47-plus percent when President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. Republicans are at 30.1 percent and fall-ing. (Based on their public utterances, apparently, this is by choice.) And no-party-preference voters stand at 21 percent and some change: almost 3.7 million people.

“No party preference” is what California calls folks who aren’t signed up as Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian or whatever other flavors are out there. They tend to be young—18 to 39—better educated, distrusting of government, more forgiving on social issues, more likely to be informed through social media.

And that’s one reason why “no party preference” doesn’t really cut it as a definition of these folks. “No party preference” sounds like some-thing written on an Internet-dating questionnaire to euphemistically describe an undiscriminating willing-ness to perform the horizontal mambo. But “no party preference” is a major step up from “decline to state,” which is what indie voters used to be called.

Judging from the no-party-prefer-ence tag, it would seem that upward of 3.7 million Californians would rather jab needles in their eyes than spend 30 seconds seated next to a scummy Democrat or putrescent Republican.

Not exactly. No-party-preference voters actually have preferences, according to an August Public Policy Institute of California poll on the subject. The PPIC says 43 percent of likely “independent” voters lean Democrat and 30 percent Republican. (Shocking,

eh? A mirror of the state’s overall voter-registration statistics.)

The remaining 27 percent says a pox on both parties. Well, sort of.

From the same poll, 59 percent of independents say they’re down with same-sex marriage. Two-thirds of independents say jack up taxes on the wealthy until their wallets bleed.

Then again, independents can be just as divided as party-affiliated voters. Legalization of marijuana: 49 percent for and 46 percent against. Death penalty for first-degree murder: 50 percent say warehouse the scum bucket, and 46 percent say stick a needle in the rat bastard.

And, as if this hasn’t yet been parsed six ways from Sunday, although a majority of indie voters tilt Democrat, 55 percent say the Democratic Party sucks, 61 percent say the same thing about the Reps and another 56 percent think the tea-party chuckleheads bite.

Clearly, not a monolithic group of voters. And are they ever fickle. Nationally in 2008, independent voters went with Democrats by an eight-point spread. In 2010, they broke with Republicans by 19 points.

In the old R. Crumb cartoons, some-one invariably says, “What’s does it all mean, Mr. Natural?”

It may, in fact, as Mr. Natural usually answers, not mean shit. Independent voters could just take a pass this time around.

A large-scale independent opt out hurts the president. But it doesn’t significantly enrich former-Gov. Mitt Romney and the GOP, either, except in so far as there are less votes for the Democrat.

The fear is if these alleged independents are so alienated, they’ll actually bogart the party the PPIC says they generally align with.

It’s not by accident that President Obama doesn’t stand under banners trumpeting “Change” this time around. He’s the “Forward” guy now. The tag implies, of course, his opponent is “Backward,” and encouraging “Change” might lead someone—like, say a recently graduated from college independent voter who can’t find a job—to switch his or her political allegiance.

And, as president of the United States in a difficult election year, that would be very, very, seriously bad. Ω

Independent voters could just take a pass this time around.

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Sacramento’s power trioMeet your SMUD board candidates

They don’t call it public power for nothing. Unlike the for-profit Pacific Gas and Electric

Company—which is owned by share-holders—the Sacramento Municipal Utility District is owned by us, the ratepayers.

The elected members of SMUD’s board of directors each represent about

200,000 residents, each organized into “wards.” That reminds Bites of Thomas

Jefferson’s “ward republics,” though these wards contain enough people to fill a midsize American city.

If you live in downtown, Midtown, north Natomas, north Sacramento or

other points north, you’re in Ward 5, and it’s time for you to elect a new represen-

tative. He or she will help oversee SMUD’s $1.3 billion budget, which is kind of a big deal, though a lot of voters don’t have a clue who to vote for.

“A lot of people don’t even know there is a SMUD board. They don’t know that they have a voice,” SMUD candidate Samara Palko told Bites last week.“Some people don’t know what SMUD is,” agreed Michael Picker, an energy consultant also running for the Ward 5 seat. The voter’s choice is made more difficult by a respectable crop of three smart, articulate candidates who seem sincere about public service.

Palko was a middle-school teacher and now serves on the board of the Midtown Neighborhood Association, where she puts on events like National Night Out. She told Bites she’s interested in getting customers more engaged and bringing SMUD into the classrooms.

Ben Phillips is an appointed member of the SMUD Community Advisory Panel and is active in the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce and the Sacramento Asian Chamber of Commerce. He’s running on a platform of engagement, too, with an emphasis on letting customers know how they can save money on their bills. Phillips has a ton of endorsements from local politi-cal groups, including the Democratic Party of Sacramento County and the Stonewall Democrats of Sacramento, as well as several elected officials, including current SMUD board members Genevieve Shiroma and Nancy Bui-Thompson.

Picker’s got a long résumé that includes a recent stint as Gov. Jerry Brown’s advisor on renewable-energy facilities; he was also chief of staff to Mayor Joe Serna and was involved early on in the movement to shut down SMUD’s Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station in the 1980s. He’s also got the most campaign money of all the candidates. Picker’s raised about $75,000 compared to Phillips’ $25,000.

The two men seem to have a bit of a rivalry. The Picker campaign complained to county elections officials about the way Phillips’ name was listed on the ballot. Phillips had it down as “SMUD community advisor,” which is accurate, but team Picker said that made it sound like Phillips was a SMUD employee. Fearing a lawsuit, Phillips changed it to “SMUD community volunteer,” and then had to change it again to “municipal utility advisor.”

All very insidery, but Bites just brings it up to show that even if this election isn’t much on the public radar, these folks aren’t running for class president.

Another example: Phillips put together a short video ad and posted it to his website tying Picker to Jerry Brown’s peripheral-canal plan. He says that the peripheral canal will hurt SMUD’s hydropower operation. “And if we have to purchase that power from some-where else, that’s going to cost us.”

The video shows Picker speaking at a recent forum saying, “I can’t say that I really know very much about the governor’s peripheral-canal proposal.” To be fair, neither does Bites. But Picker is a Brown appointee—he ought to have a better answer.

And, in fact, Picker has since said water experts tell him the peripheral canal is not a threat to SMUD. “Our water rights are very strong.” He said he’s more concerned about drought and other ways that climate change could affect us. “I think we need to worry more about these severe weather events.”

Palko seems a little bemused by the tussle and what she calls the “special interest” nature of the race. “It seems preprogrammed, like it’s all based on who knows who.”

“Those two can go at it. My reason for running is to engage customers,” she added.

Anyway, good luck Ward 5 voters, and more power to you. Ω

“ If we have to purchase that power from somewhere else, that’s going to cost us.”

Ben PhillipsSMUD Ward 5 board of directors candidate

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Money is not free speech

Ben and Jerry support amendment to overturn Citizens United ruling

Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream fame has discovered an incredibly effective speech-making

technique. He demonstrated it at a recent alternative-newspaper-publishers convention in Burlington, Vermont. Setting down a gigantic bag filled with

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Jerry began his remarks by saying that the ice cream would take about 10 minutes

to soften up.Anticipating free ice cream, the room of publishers

softened up much sooner. It is amazing how much more insightful and interesting a speech is that concludes with ice cream. Unfortunately, Jerry’s message was not so sweet.

When asked to explain Ben & Jerry’s tremendous success when there are so many great ice-cream makers across the

country, Jerry suggested it was the anti-corporate, pro-social-movement position of Ben & Jerry’s that really separated it from its competitors. That led to great growth and the need to take the company public by sell-ing shares in the company.

Once the company went public, Jerry said they had a

responsibility to maximize shareholder value. So when an offer to buy the company came in, Jerry said they legally had to sell.

So, sadly, they lost their company. Perhaps happily for them, however, they also became rich. According to Jerry, he and his boyhood friend and business partner Ben Cohen are now employed without responsibility and without authority. This gives them a tremendous amount of time and freedom to work on whatever they chose.

Although he was scheduled to speak to the publishers, Ben could not make the convention, because he was out of town working with Move to Amend, supporting a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United.

Even though our Founding Fathers conducted a revolution to free our country from royalty and landed gentry, a few hundred years later, the Supreme Court decided to turn over the country to the corporate royalty. The average person gets one vote, but the rich can spend as much money as they want to buy the election.

I do not get it. And neither does Ben Cohen.Move to Amend supports a constitutional amendment

encouraging us to stamp a message on dollar bills. In addition to giving me some great ice cream, Jerry gave me two stamps: “Not to be used for bribing politicians” and “The system isn’t broken, it’s fixed.” Ben plans to travel across the country with a soon-to-be-created gigantic money-stamping machine, encouraging people to stamp their money. It’s a fun idea to bring attention to a national problem.

Ben and Move to Amend are asking citizens and cities to sign a petition stating, “We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corpora-tions, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”

That idea is delicious—as was the Blueberry Vanilla Graham Greek Frozen Yogurt. Ω

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Against the grainUC Davis scientists explore solutions for removing arsenic from groundwater—and foods like rice and fish

Into the blueThey are startling, they are meant to startle: the blue trees on 13th Street, lined up near the Sacramento Community Center Theater.

It’s the kind of color you wouldn’t wish on your niece’s hair, which is why so many nieces favor it: That electric shade of blue that because it is so unnatural, leaves you uncomfortable, unsettled. Somehow, the Clash line about “electric shockers” comes to mind, but Ruthie can’t say exactly why.

Auntie Ruth was wandering around the project in its early stages, and a paint-stained Konstantin Dimopoulos was happy to chat a bit. He’s the Australian artist, whisked out our way for a project that will endure until the hard rains come. The project, part art-in- public-places and part eco-activism, came cour-tesy of a what-if article in Sactown Magazine and some $25K in public and private fundraising. That’s a bargain—presenting an event featuring one night with a good dance company can easily cost that much. Conversa-tionally, his eco-rap was good—very pro-tree, pro-environmental, attention must be paid to Ma Earth and her mighty trees—and he tried to tie in his work in Sacramento with a “nearby” old-growth forest (Auntie thinks he was referring to Humboldt County, meaning Mr. Dimopoulos’ grasp of Northern California is as spot-on as Aun-tie’s grasp of Devils Marbles, Australia—no harm done), and when asked about what would happen to the blue paint after it washed off, he noted it was environmentally harmless and licked the paint right off his hand. And then grinned, toothily.

We environmentalists lack the startle factor more often than not. Not that your average day perusing the news isn’t star-tling enough, but the startle factor sometimes crouches beneath the science, the complexity, the nerdy truths of it all. That and the peculiarly American inability for taking the long view makes us slow to alarm. Show us a polar bear drowning for lack of a nearby iceberg, and we get it.

Or show us a blue tree. And when Mitt Romney says he’s going

to aggressively develop coal, or that half the renewable-energy businesses that received stimulus money went bust, or that “I don’t think carbon is a pollutant in the sense of harming our bodies,” somebody has got to paint it blue.

A bright, startling blue. Ω

by Auntie Ruth

Arsenic in rice? But we put rice in everything.That’s the shocked response from many house-

holds to the recent news that Consumer Reports maga-zine’s testing had found inorganic arsenic in more than 200 samples of 65 different rice products.

Arsenic, an element that is used industrially to strengthen metal alloys, is found in both organic and inorganic forms—and not just in the rice, according to Peter G. Green, a researcher at UC Davis’ John Muir Institute of the Environment.

“You can get arsenic in any plant,” he told SN&R. “The process is simple. If arsenic is in the groundwa-ter and plants put their roots in the ground, there will be arsenic in the plants.”

While Green said that arsenic can be found in a variety of foods, including apple juice, it’s most likely to be found in fish and rice.

“But if you set aside the fish, rice is the going to be the higher” in the amount of arsenic absorbed and passed on, he said. Rice is “efficient at taking up water, and the arsenic is in the water.”

Green noted that toxicity depends entirely on what kind of arsenic it is and how much a human is likely to receive. Inorganic arsenic is far more toxic to humans than the organic type. Unfortunately, in groundwater, inorganic arsenic is much more common.

“Removing it from the groundwater is a major goal for us, and at UC Davis, we’re working on ways to do that,”

Green said. “Since it’s suspended in the water, we’re working on ways to pull it out.”

Arsenic in food crops is a problem worldwide, but especially in Asia.

“We have an advantage in California,” Green said. “We don’t have nearly the arsenic in our groundwater that they have in some parts of the world. For instance Asia, particularly Bangladesh. But arsenic can be found in our water.”

The long-term solution is, Green said, to get the arsenic out of the groundwater. But there are also other agricultural options, such as growing rice in a way that minimizes the amount of arsenic it takes up from water and soil, as well as developing strains of rice that are less efficient at absorbing arsenic.

Dr. Marc Schenker, a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UC Davis, has done research on arsenic levels in kelp products that are sold as dietary supplements.

“I’m delighted to see attention paid to this issue,” he told SN&R. “It’s a contaminant that should be regulated and monitored.”

Schenker compared arsenic in rice with arsenic and mercury in fish. “We’ve known for a long time that arsenic is in seafood along with mercury. The basic

recommendation is to eat seafood in moderation,” he said. “You won’t have trouble with eating fish a couple of times a week, but if you eat it every day, you could have some problems.”

The key, he said, is moderation. But that doesn’t mean we should just ignore the presence of arsenic in rice.

“Over the long term, we need to see that we’re addressing monitoring arsenic in rice,” he said. Arsenic is “ubiquitous in soils.”

“There are places with very high accumulations, and in those instances there needs to be remediation,” Schenker said. “Arsenic is natural: It occurs in the Earth’s crust. That doesn’t mean we can’t monitor it and set limits for what’s acceptable in food.”

Ultimately, the experts agree on the best advice. Schenker quoted well-known foodie author Michael Pollan and pointed out that “if you don’t eat too much of anything, you’re probably OK. Eat good, fresh, healthy foods, all in moderation.”

He did note that information about the levels of arsenic in rice would be of interest to people who are following a gluten-free diet.

“Gluten-free diets tend to be high in rice,” he said. “You’ve solved one problem and created another, so vary the grains.”

Green agrees. “Eat a variety of food, and you’ll probably be good.” Ω

byKel Munger

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“We have an advantage in

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UC Davis’ John Muir Institute of the Environment

Iced outThe Sierra Nevada of California are home to numerous beautiful glaciers that are quickly dissapearing due to climate change. This weekend, the Sierra College Natural History Museum at Sierra College (5000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin, Sewell Hall 111) highlights the issue during the two-day lecture series California Glaciers: Going, going, gone? The event begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oc-tober 26, with a lecture by geologist Dick Hilton, titled “How the Sierra Obtained its Beauty.” It concludes at 7:30 p.m. Saturday with writer and photoghrapher Tim Palmer discussing his latest book, California Glaciers. Friday’s lecture costs $2 to $5; Satur-day’s discussion is free.

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UC Davis experts agree: Don’t eat too much of anything—even rice—and eat fresh, healthy foods.

Past/president/futureThis time, it’s about change we can accomplish

I’m a longtime fan of Dave Eggers—author, editor, originator—so I became a quick enthusiast of his 90 Days, 90 Reasons project with its countdown-to-election stream of essays from people on why they’re voting to re-elect President Barack Obama. So far, we’ve heard from Jonathan Franzen, Khaled Hosseini, Jamaica Kincaid, Judd Apatow, Paul Simon, Michelle Tea and plenty of others.

Inevitably, the website led me to consider my own reason for supporting Obama. This time, it doesn’t have to do with how I felt in the full sweep of “change we can believe in,” with the idealistic bumper stickers and “Hope” posters. It doesn’t have to do with the elation with which I listened to each one of Obama’s speeches in 2008 as he hopped ahead from one gleaming victory to the next. It doesn’t have to do with the unanticipated and whole-cloth optimism I felt suddenly, and at last, about the future of the country.

No, this time, my reason for supporting Obama is less breathless, not as wide-eyed. But it’s just as genuine. This time, it’s not about change we can believe in—it’s about change we can actually accomplish.

Like so many, I’m enormously distressed by the ultra-conservatives in Congress and across America who want a return to the failed policies of the Bush administration. But lately, I find myself even more unglued by progres-sive-slash-liberal friends and readers who say having Obama in office would be pretty much the same as having Mitt Romney there. On the Opening Salvo page on the 90 Days website, Eggers and Co. speculate that some members of the left simply want “to punish President Obama [for not achieving all that was hoped for] by electing an arch-conservative to rule the most powerful nation on Earth.”

I can relate to this. And it’s not because I haven’t thought through what it takes to become president. I’ve interviewed three candidates for the country’s top job. In 1992, I interviewed presidential contender and California’s now-Gov. Jerry Brown while driving in a van from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. He may not think it timely to offer this recollection, but make no mistake: As a national candidate two decades ago, Brown was very much a liberal progressive in his outlook and platform.

It was 2000 when Ralph Nader came to SN&R’s offices and spoke to a small group of us about his bid for the presidency. (I remember him offering a shrug when I asked if his candidacy in a general election might actually wind up helping a Republican become president.) Finally, in 2004, I wrote about presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, another leading progressive voice in America. I still remember him striding back and forth on the stage of Davis’ Varsity Theatre with a handheld microphone, thrilling the crowd with his call for economic justice and a new grassroots democracy.

What do all these presidential contenders have in common? 1. They inspired. 2. They moved the political debate to the left. 3. They would never, ever become president of the United States.

It can be difficult to grasp from inside a liberal political bubble (i.e., the state of California), but history teaches pretty clearly that a majority of voters in this country embrace moderate views and are never going to support an agenda that calls for a fundamental left restructuring of how things work in America. They can be manipulated by fear into voting to the right, but so far, there seems to be no equivalent motivating force to convince them to vote to the left.

All this brings us back to Obama—bril-liant, liberal and challenged out of the gate by an alarming recession, giant deficit, two wars and, all too quickly, a hostile right-wing Congress. One can certainly criticize him for a too-accommodating record. But I think Obama is, in every way, as good as we’re ever going to get.

He signed the landmark Affordable Care Act that, though it’s not a single-payer program, expanded access to care for all and stopped insurance companies from denying care to people with pre-existing conditions. He ended one war and will soon achieve the same with the other. He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and stood up to a GOP hell-bent on rolling back a woman’s right to choose. He appointed two women to the Supreme Court, and he supports gay marriage. He passed the DREAM Act. He saved the auto industry from collapse. He invested lots into clean energy and put a lid on the building of new coal-fired power plants. He’s attempt-ing to end tax loopholes that favor billionaires and millionaires.

Voting for Obama this time won’t feel like it did in 2008, and that’s OK. This time, it’ll feel practical, steadfast—smart. The last thing this country needs is to go backward. As Dave Egger’s realized 79 days ago, the direction has got to be forward. Ω

byMelinda Welsh

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This time my reason for supporting Barack Obama

is less breathless, not as wide-eyed.

But it’s just as genuine.

Check out Dave Eggers and Co.’s project to

re-elect President Barack Obama at

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Local races Sacramento City Council District 2: Rob KerthRob Kerth’s served this neighborhood—and the city as a whole—for a long time. He knows how to get things done.

Sacramento City Council District 4: Steve HansenSteve Hansen has a unique, specific vision for how a burgeoning arts and entertainment scene in Midtown and downtown can serve as catalysts to power economic growth and redevelopment.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District board member: Michael Picker Michael Picker will bring unequaled expertise and a rich history of leadership to SMUD’s board. He has advised Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger on renewable energy and knows how to develop viable green-energy products for Sacramento consumers.

Measure M: NoIf Measure M passes, the resulting commission will likely resemble a kind of larger, messier doppelgänger of the city council itself. In the absence of real leadership, is more always better?

Measure T and Measure U: YesMeasure T will help the city curb illegal yard-waste dumping and also make the roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Measure U will raise the city’s sales tax by half a percent—from 7.75 percent to 8.25 percent—over six years. Sacramento city services—police, fire, libraries and solid waste—have experienced unprec-edented cuts, and the estimated $28 million in added revenue from Measure U will go a long way to ensuring these fundamental services are preserved.

Measure Q and Measure R: YesMeasure Q would approve a bond to raise $346 million to pay for new classrooms, science labs, heating and air condition-ing, and bathrooms in schools. Smaller bond Measure R will raise $68 million for playgrounds and athletic and kitchen facilities. The measures are a smart and needed investment in Sacramento’s education infrastructure.

StatewideProposition 30: YesGov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30 calls for a temporary, quarter-cent sales tax (from 7.25 to 7.50 percent) and personal income-tax increase for Californians earn-ing more than $250,000. Passage of this proposition will prevent an immediate $6 billion in further cuts to schools, provide billions in new school funds, prevent more tuition hikes, protect public safety by halt-ing further cuts to cops and firefighters, and save billions in future prison costs.

Proposition 31: NoThis attempt by good-government groups simply does not fly. Proposition 31 would make cuts and austerity the “go-to” method for dealing with our problems when what we need is a governor and legislature free to consider both cuts and revenue creation.

Proposition 32: No This measure is a familiar attack on unions by a core group of super-rich Republicans, like the billionaire Koch brothers. Without the influence of union spending in elections and in the lobbying realm, giant corporations would hold even more power and influence.

Proposition 33: No Conceived and funded by 91-year-old billionaire George Joseph, founder of Mercury Insurance Group, Proposition 33 would allow insurance companies to discriminate against the young and the poor and drive up costs up for everyone.

Proposition 34: Yes The Savings, Accountibility, and Full Enforcement for California Act—a.k.a. the SAFE California Act—which seeks to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, is a long-awaited fix for a system that SN&R has always argued is enormously flawed, practically as well as morally.

Proposition 35: NoHuman trafficking is already illegal. If the penalties aren’t severe enough, they can be changed in the Legislature. What’s more, we’ve seen no real data—other than the anecdotal evidence put forward by the law-enforcement agencies and nonprofits that stand to gain—that this so-called crisis exists.

Proposition 36: YesWe’ve all heard of criminals, convicted under the state’s three-strikes law, who

were sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Proposition 36 would make things more equitable by requiring that the third strike be a serious or violent felony. The state would save nearly $90 million annually in prison costs.

Proposition 37: YesA company should not be allowed to label a food product “natural” if it contains genetically modified organisms. Companies such as Monsanto, General Mills, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company and others shouldn’t hide ingredients from consumers. But those companies have donated more than $32 million to the No on 37 effort.

Proposition 38: NoMultimillionaire civil-rights lawyer Molly Munger’s Proposition 38 is not the schools fix it claims to be and would create many more problems than solutions. Also, passage of this measure would mangle Gov. Jerry Brown’s attempt to fix our budget crisis. A vote for Proposition 38 is a potential vote against Proposition 30.

Proposition 39: YesThis measure would close an unjust and costly corporate-tax loophole which gives an advantage to out-of-state corporations and create new jobs in the “green” sector. What could be bad?

Proposition 40: YesA yes vote would safeguard the state Senate districts that were drawn up by the Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2011, following the process established by California voters in 2008.

U.S. House of RepresentativesDistrict 3: John GaramendiU.S. Rep. John Garamendi deserves another term. His challenger, Republican Kim Vann, supports the political agenda of the “do nothing” Congress which has been so ineffectual in Washington, D.C., these past two years.

District 4: Jack Uppal In this suburban and foothills district, fiscally conservative voters with a moder-ate view on social issues can look to tech businessman Jack Uppal as the sort of Democrat who will best represent their interests.

District 7: Dr. Ami BeraThe local physician would enter Congress as a bright but independent Democrat. His opponent U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren is far too conservative to represent a district that incorporates huge swaths of Sacramento County.

District 9: Jerry McNerneyThroughout his three terms in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney has shown himself to be an worthy representative. He’s a moderate Democrat (despite his Republican opponent’s claims in televi-sion ads) and deserves another term.

California State Assembly District 6: Beth GainesSince voters in this district clearly want a far-right conservative, we urge them to elect Beth Gaines.

District 7: Roger DickinsonSerious, thoughtful and pragmatic, Roger Dickinson resoundingly deserves a second assembly term.

District 8: Ken CooleyAs opposed to Peter Tateishi (an employee of ultraconservative U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren), former Rancho Cordova city Councilman Ken Cooley takes a moderate approach, favoring realistic pension reform and a sound combination of budget cuts and revenue increases.

District 9: Richard Pan Richard Pan has proven himself to be a smart, responsive and compassionate legislator during his first term.

NationalU.S. Senate: Dianne FeinsteinWe don’t always see eye to eye with longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein, but she’s rock solid on many issues we care about.

President: Barack ObamaAmerica faces colossal challenges. This is no time to go backward. We must allow the president to continue leading us forward. Ω

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With California at a crossroads, the governor gets down and dirty on Proposition 30—and what happens if it fails

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When California Gov. Jerry Brown addressed the state chamber of commerce

earlier this year to gain support to raise taxes, he seemed to revel in admitting he was stuck in a box. This was precisely the dilemma that existentialist heroes relish: At a time when the word “taxes” had become dirty, he was more or less leveraging his political future, and the state’s, on a measure to broadly raise revenues. This seemed like the only way out for a government that was running up massive deficits while firing teachers, shuttering libraries and cutting back support for the poor. But Brown embraces his image as one resolute man pitted against a cold and indifferent political universe.

“Aristotle’s poetics talks about three acts—the beginning, the middle and the end,” he told the business crowd in what was considered a well-received speech. “We’re just beginning act two. It’s true some politicians don’t have a third act. I hope I’m not one of them, because the third act is when it gets good. Act two is when the protagonist is under pressure to get out of the box he’s in,” he added. “You wait. We’re going to get to act three very soon.”

Over the past several decades, the Golden State has become a dyspeptic brew of deficits, faltering services and decaying schools—presided over by a government whose popularity rating barely clears the single digits. Californians are indeed waiting to see what Brown will do to get himself, and us, out of this mess.

The 74-year-old Brown is at his do-or-die moment: He came into office with an ironclad pledge that, with no higher political aspirations, he would deploy all of his accumulated political skills to solve, once and for all, the state’s perennial budget crisis and deficit.

Brown bolted out of the gate, vowing to engage the populace in a massive, straight-shooting “civic dialogue” that would do away with decades of empty political rhetoric and rationally approach tough fiscal realities.

And then he disappeared. “Frankly, he became invisible,” says a longtime Brown associate and admirer. “For the first six months, he was the most fucking boring guy in the state. It was really infuriating, and it was intentional.”

The governor wasn’t goofing off. He was cloistered inside the Capitol, talking mostly with Republicans, a weak party that has just enough legislative seats (by four, to be exact) to block the absurd two-thirds majority vote required to raise taxes.

Brown was sure he could use his powers of persuasion to peel them off and make a grand bargain: budget cuts and pension reform in exchange for tax increases. Or so he thought.

Instead, Brown hit a brick wall. “Jerry’s had sort of an Obama trajectory,” says Raphael Sonenshein, the executive director of the Los Angeles-based Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, named for the governor’s father, the 32nd California governor. “At first, he spent more time with the Republicans than Arnold did. But like Obama, Jerry didn’t understand he could do nothing with them and get nothing from them. I don’t think he fully grasped the cynical dynamics of the current Republican Party.”

Walking away empty-handed, Brown had to ruthlessly chop social spending so the state wouldn’t capsize. He slashed billions from already battered schools and health-care programs.

What Brown emerged with this year, finally, was a broad financial plan, one that he reluctantly—then enthusiasti-cally—fused with a popular “millionaire’s tax” proposed by the smaller of two statewide teachers unions. The medulla of the plan is Proposition 30: a four-year, quarter-of-a-percent sales-tax increase, and a seven-year increase of 1 percent to 3 percent on incomes of $250,000 or more. If voters approve the measure on November 6, it would rake in about $9 billion for the next fiscal year, and it should significantly close the budget gap narrowed by Brown’s draconian spending cuts.

“Jerry’s a very shrewd politician,” says Dan Schnur, the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California and a former communica-tions director for Gov. Pete Wilson. “He’s written the biggest ransom note in history. He’s telling voters: ‘Either pass this initiative or your kids are gonna get it in the head.’”

Brown is managing the country’s most populous state and the world’s ninth-largest economy. But he has no communica-tions director, and no chief of staff. His daily schedule is, well, daily, with little to no public advance notice of events. The governor should be leading a broad campaign promoting his plan to buck the national trend of no tax increases. Even his fiercest critics concede that Brown is about as smart as they come, the person best prepared to make the case for his crusade. But he’s not.

Instead, he’s running what some critics see as little more than a mom-and-pop operation, with Brown and his wife, the lawyer Anne Gust Brown, making virtually all decisions on their own. If the bombastic Arnold was overproduced, the ascetic Jerry is underproduced.

“What’s missing in Jerry’s austerity program is his taking the sufficient time to explain it’s a choice,” says Sonenshein. “Those of us who know Jerry sure wish we would see him out there more.”

Even some of his most reliable political allies have thrown their hands in the air. “He’s a brilliant guy, but he has no strategic skills, no organizational skills,” says a high-profile former state legislator. “He has a lot of interesting thoughts, but he can never correlate these thoughts into action. His office has no one you can deal with. His wife has the appearance of organization but no political skills, and there’s nobody else. You’ve got a state of 38 million people, and he’s a mess.”

Brown has heard all this before, and he’s built up his immunity. In fact, the criticism probably only encourages him to keep doing what he’s been doing. He’s brilliant and he knows it. And given the deplorable state of American and California politics, he clearly wears criticism as a badge of honor and believes firmly that he alone can begin to resolve the crisis that has become synonymous with California.

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When I sat down to speak with Brown in the once stately Ronald Reagan Cabinet Room—which he has remodeled with a Spartan touch, not unlike that of a high-school faculty lounge—he was determined to push ahead with what he sees as his historic mandate: to build a stable water system for the state, construct a futuristic $68 billion high-speed rail system, turn more power over to local governments, move the state to alternative energies, and stabilize and reform the heretofore uncontrollable budget process—even if he has to do it on his own.

As of press time, Proposition 30 is too close to call, and Brown is fully aware of the possibility of defeat at the ballot box. So far, he has done an admirable job of placating the state’s business lobbies, which have tradition-ally been taxophobic. Most have either signed on to his measure or remained neutral.

Depending on how the election unfolds, Jerry Brown round two will be remembered as the man who saved California, or as the grinch who presided, solely, over its dismantling.

Marc Cooper: It’s difficult to imagine why you would come back to the California statehouse knowing you’d be jumping into a historic mess and would be forced to make very unpopular cuts. Did you misjudge something?Jerry Brown: I came to this job fully and deeply aware of the dilemma—of the huge gap between revenue and spending obligations. I came as someone who has known every gover-nor in my lifetime except Culbert Olson, who was elected in 1938. … I’ve followed every single election since that time. I would say I have a fair grasp of what’s going on in terms of politics, the Legislature, the governor and the budget. I full well knew that failure was and is an option, and will always be an option.

This dilemma has defied every governor since Earl Warren. Ronald Reagan raised the income tax. Fact! George Deukmejian raised the gas tax from 9 to 18 cents. Fact! But we’re in a world now where Republicans have a brand: “No taxes.” It’s as much a part of their identity as right to life is for Catholic bishops.

Given your knowledge of the state, did you ex-pect to be so alone? Gov. Pete Wilson’s former communications director, Dan Schnur, says you are “standing on the 50-yard line while the two parties have retreated to the end zones.”I knew cutting [programs] could run into a lot of opposition, and the result might be howls of execration. But if you’ve ever read The Stranger, then you can say that for all that I have tried to accomplish, all I ask is to be greeted with howls of execration on the day of my execution. (Laughs.) So I had that in mind, and I thought about it.

You refer to the existential hero Meursault.Right, Meursault. Not many people read that anymore. So there it is. I didn’t know if being excoriated would happen, but I knew it could happen.

That you could go down in glory? Certainly there’s a better endgame for California than your personal sacrifice. What does the state need to get back on track even if your initiative passes? That’s not the end of it.We need budget cuts. We need the continued growth of the economy for a long period of time. We’re suffering from the mortgage meltdown that killed 600,000 jobs in the construction industry. … We’re recovering from a national recession slowly—over 300,000 jobs [gained] since the recession. We’ve got a million to go. That needs to continue, but that depends not only on [President] Barack Obama and the Congress and the Federal Reserve, but also on [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel, China, the European Union, and the self-organizing quality of the world economy. We need all that, which we don’t have control over.

What we do have control over is managing affairs to win public regard and confidence, and technically we need to make these hard cuts that Democrats don’t want to make, but a gimmicky sort of budget won’t lend itself to voters passing new taxes.

The Legislature approval rating is near single digits. Legislators seem to have declined radically in quality. How did we get into a place where state government seems both scorned and impotent?It is what it is. The measure of inequality is getting worse—to be precise, the Gini coef-ficient shows America has more inequality than other comparable nations. California has more inequality than most of the states, more than 40 of them. The Democrats want to help people who have been disadvantaged by this economy these last decades. The Republicans want to weaken and roll back various aspects of what the Democrats have tried to do—all sorts of good programs that good people come

up with. They all cost money. Rarely if ever are they ever paid for on a long-term basis.

I would like not to create nirvana, but to create a greater measure of balance and reserve. … And we’ve got to live with what the voters want. If people say no, that’s a message to Democrats: “Knock it off, people don’t want it.” Or, if they [understand the problem], that will be: “Well, you can spend some, but not as much as you’d like, because we’ve still got to make serious cuts.” This is why my program is half cuts, half taxes.

You say your agenda is not liberal, but you certainly have made a public commitment to social justice and compassion.Yes.

So how do you find balance in the cuts you are making?You have to ask: How much university do you want? How much do we want to cushion

the shocks of capitalism on the families of California? How much do we want the people who pick our food in the hot fields of Imperial County to make? And if they don’t make much, how much should we help them in terms of supplement by the state? I’d say many compassionate people would say a lot more help is needed than is conceivable by any tax regime that could be imagined.

Now, if you go to the Republican regime, and you keep cutting back, and you see what that does to the safety net, to the quality of our society, what it does to the space program, what it does to research, what it does to highways and roads, what it does to universities and schools—it’s pretty much a nightmare. The Republicans are pushing us further and further into the ditch, and the Democrats have perhaps some unrealis-tic expectations of where the people want to go. It isn’t so much what I, trained in a Jesuit semi-nary for almost four years, would say is right, it’s: What does the democratic polity say it wants? It appears people in California are saying they don’t want a lot of these cuts, but they’re also saying they don’t want to spend the money to prevent them, and that’s the management task that politicians have. In California, I know from a credible survey, when you ask people, “How much waste is there in government?” the most popular answer is, “About 40 percent.”

That’s absurd.Yes, 40 percent is unthinkable, and yet that is the considered judgment I’ve seen on the surveys. So until we cut 40 percent, I guess people won’t be happy. Cutting 40 percent would mean virtually eliminating schools, the court systems, prisons—we can’t function with that. There is a disconnect. Part of it is the propaganda from the right, part of it is the

At a Sacramento rally in 2010, Gov. Jerry Brown pledged to tackle the state’s tough fiscal realities head-on. It’s been a head-ache, too, for Brown—and the coming election may not be an ibuprofen moment.

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“ I think there’s a sense that those who’ve been blessed with so much good fortune should help the state in its dire need. I think  that’s a belief.”

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American tradition that we’re rugged individual-ists. It’s a dilemma that we don’t live in a small community where we can assess what the services are and what the taxes are and adjust to it on a smaller scale. The diversity of belief and experience in smaller communities makes state government very contentious, and that’s why local control was a good idea. Local schools, cities—not some megastate. I am not presenting a perfect solution, because we live in a fallen state, if I can use that term. This is not a perfect world, but we have to do the best we can. We have a [proposal] that I think will work but it is opposed by Republican and Democrats.

As a former chairman of the Democratic Party, you refer quite a bit to Democrats in the third person.Well, I’m the executive, and then we have these other branches. And the courts don’t want the cuts I’m asking for, nor do the legis-lators. So I do have to say, the executive is in a somewhat solitary position.

Proposition 30 will hit the top percent of income earners the hardest. Some of your critics say, “Here we go again. Jerry is staking the state’s future on the cyclical income of the business cycle. It’s too volatile.”The top 1 percent in the state increased its share of the income from 10 to 22 percent. The bottom 80 percent of the state is declin-ing. That’s just a fairness fact. The surveys indicate very clearly that no other tax [other than the one I propose] is going to pass. The alternative is not some broader-based tax, it’s doubling up on the cuts. People don’t want that either. The voters say they do want this tax by a majority, so why not give them a chance to vote on it? To me it’s logical, but you say, “It’s going to be cyclical,” or, “There we go again, relying on just a few people.” Yeah, I’d rather have a broader tax—there should be ways to have a more rational tax—but that is not viable. It’s not going to pass the Legislature. It’s not going to pass by initiative. It’s a nonstarter. So the only choice is even more cuts, or the tax I’m proposing—or one very close to it.

Californians have spent 20 years giving the thumbs-down to higher taxes. What makes you think all of a sudden things have changed?First of all, we don’t know how open they are to it until we get to the election.

But you think they are, or you wouldn’t propose it.There’s no choice—I’m doing the best I can. We’ve got our backs to the wall here. It may prove to be illusory, but we have an opening and we’re gonna take it. I think there’s a sense that those who’ve been blessed with so much good fortune should help the state in its dire need. I think that’s a belief. Secondly, the constant reductions—the university, public schools, police, other public services, library hours, all that. Enough already.

Some of your natural allies suggest that you don’t know what you are doing.They’ve been saying that since 1970. I can read you a litany.

They say that with the immense challenge of getting this tax increase, you need a more robust staff, a real communications office, more public presence, better messaging.What are you talking about? We’ve got hundreds of thousands of people! You see this hallway? It’s loaded with people. This is the biggest press office I’ve ever had in my life—we’ve got five people down there. Bigger than when [I was] running for president, running for governor. So, I don’t know what that means. That’s a silly critique. Who made that critique? As soon as you have too many people around, you can’t manage them. A lack of messaging? I think the message is pretty clear. What message hasn’t gotten through?

I’m not saying this. Your allies are.First, you need to define what you mean. “You need a message,” but “I can’t tell you what the message is.” There’s a gap here, but what? I need to put out more paper?

Most of what I’ve heard has been from Democrats who say you have been too invisible. They want you out there on the bully pulpit, pounding home the tax message.Not enough of me? I have an acute sense that people have only so much tolerance for the political face. There was a fellow in Greece called Aristides the Just, and he offended some people in Athens, and they decided to ostracize him. “Why are you voting to ostra-cize me?” And the guy said, “We are tired of hearing from Aristides the Just.” So based on that, I like to limit my public exposure.

That said, there is a political reality. You do have to win this campaign.Right. And it does take money to buy the ads. And some debate. But messaging is a very manipulative concept made by advertisers. Like “Pepsi beats the others cold.” That’s messaging. Not a message.

So, what’s your message?The message is: “We have this much money, we’re making some cuts, we’re doing some pension reform. It’s your call—if you can give us more revenue, we won’t have to make more cuts. If you can’t give us the revenue, we’ve got to make more cuts. The moment of truth is upon us. We see it in Europe, we see it in Washington [D.C.]. We have to stand and meet our maker here, which is fiscal balance.” That is what I am presenting as my value proposition.

Let’s say you do achieve victory. Today we have a $16 billion deficit. Your tax increase will meet only half of that.We need more cuts.

Back to cuts?We need half cuts, half taxes. I keep saying that.

Even with Prop. 30?Or double. It’s either $16 billion or $8 billion. That’s the issue. You can’t stop the cuts—we’re living beyond our means.

While speaking to the state chamber of com-merce, you said this is merely act two, with a lot more to come.Well, I didn’t want them to think we’re finished. (Laughs.)

So is act three another term? That I don’t know. We’re just in the struggle. We’re not waiting for a second term to get the budget balanced. I came in to fix things, if I can. A lot of people question that.

Some people say the state will never be fixed until Proposition 13, which passed in 1978, is reformed. We need a split roll, they say, that would raise taxes on commercial property to see the revenue we need. Are we going to see any proposals like that in another term?I just don’t want to go there. I’m just not ready to recommend a split roll on Prop. 13. If you want a split roll, go organize your friends and put it on the ballot. There’d be a hell of a lot of opposition. I don’t reject any idea out of hand—everything is possible. But lots of busi-nesses are hurting. You increase their property taxes, that’ll be a problem.

What about other reforms, like doing away with the two-thirds majority needed to raise taxes?You can’t get [the Legislature] to lower the two-thirds [majority] on taxes; you’ve got to put it before the people. It’s all up to the voters. I took the path I felt had the highest probability of success, and it is by no means guaranteed. So we’re moving forward care-fully. Reform is always on the table, but people who say they’re going to transform whole systems have to be careful.

Because?Because things are rarely transformed. That’s not how it works. When I was in the seminary, there were all these treatises on perfection. You know—how to become perfect, how to get rid of all your faults. Didn’t happen. After doing meditation, after doing penance, after reading the ascetical treatises, the lives of the saints, you wind up pretty much where you started. You know, some people said they were going to go to Washington and were going to transform Washington. And that hasn’t been transformed. Even the Adams-Jefferson race was nasty. Not much has changed since. Incremental change, except in times of massive crisis. War, depres-sion—that is when you have brief moments when you can make a decisive move. We have had some of those moments. Whether we have made the decisive moves is another question.

When you came into office this time, you talked with Republicans for months. A lot of people warned you not to try, but apparently, you thought you could transform them. Would you do it over again, even though you got nothing?I don’t think there’s an absolute here. But true, we couldn’t get the four votes we needed. The Republicans who voted for Arnold [Schwarzenegger], they lost their jobs, and most of these people just don’t want to lose their jobs. That’s just the way it is.

Some observers say the current California gridlock will disappear in 10 to 15 years when the demographics of the state catch up with the electorate. The voters are older, whiter, wealthier than the population, but that is changing.That sounds a bit utopian to me. First of all, in 10 or 15 years, we’ll probably be suffering

If Proposition 30 fails on November 6, it could seal Brown’s fate: to struggle onward as a governor without a third act.

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“ Climate change is serious stuff. Extreme events—they will happen. We’ll cope with them. But there’ll be more expenses. We’re storing up a lot of liabilities that we’ll have to deal with.”

Jerry Brown

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extreme weather events. We’ll have plenty of problems then. Not to mention the ag-ing European stock that will feel besieged.

Barring extreme weather, if the state becomes increasingly majority-minority, when it becomes browner—browner, with a small “B”—won’t we see a political sea change?It’ll be browner because we’ll be having forest fires.

Come on, you’re more optimistic than that.No. Ever read Jim E. Hansen? Climate change is serious stuff. Extreme events—they will happen. We’ll cope with them. But there’ll be more expenses. We’re storing up a lot of liabilities that we’ll have to deal with. Yes, there will be a different demographic balance, different environmental challenges, and there’ll be a different economic picture. It’s very hard to predict. I would say it’s not going be any easier than it is today. It will prob-ably be harder.

Something to look forward to.I’m looking forward to it.

Why’s that?I enjoy this type of work.

The challenge. So what’s the best scenario after your tenure—where are we in two or three years?We have balance, and people feel confi-dence in our fiscal management. We have our water plan launched, our cap and trade is working, our prison realignment is reducing recidivism at a lower cost, we’ve gotten some reform in our educa-tional funding—being more successful particularly among low-income families. We are building our track for our high-speed rail. Our trade and ports are

humming along, and the environmental leadership of California has been picked up by other states in the nation.

We also need schools, and they have been battered. I have to imagine that these cuts are quite painful.I don’t want to cut more universities, although there might be trigger cuts in the universities [if the bill fails].

But you didn’t answer. Do you feel a sense of regret?I’m forced to make the cuts, but a lot of the spending didn’t exist the last time I was here. … The government has taken on much more responsibility—in many ways rightfully so, given the problems we’re encountering—but the electorate is not there. We absolutely have to do more in government. But we have to bring the people along. Yet we are facing a well-armed neoliberal propaganda lobby that is promoting the notion that the market, however big the corporate players, should get bigger and government has to get smaller and smaller.

You see yourself as someone who doesn’t have the luxury of ideology, rather just some guiding principles. You’re kind of a pragmatic implementer of what is possible.I don’t want to deal with the impossible. That sounds rather futile. I know—I worked with Mother Teresa. Guys would come in half-dying, she feeds them, and the guys get a little better. She gives them a shirt, and out the door they go. Onto the streets of Calcutta. They’re not getting a pension. There it is, that’s life. That’s life on planet Earth. Ω

Read Marc Cooper’s original feature and Q-and-A in its entirety at Pacific Standard, www.psmag.com.

During Brown’s first term as governor in 1978, voters approved Proposition 13. And he’s not about to go after the 30-plus-year-old law. “[Go] organize your friends and put it on the ballot. There’d be a hell of a lot of opposition.”

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That’s because John Jota Leaños’Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta(“a dead opera”), which will be pre-sented for performance at the ThreeStages at Folsom Lake College onSunday, October 28, makes use of thetraditions of Día de los Muertos—Dayof the Dead—and images popularizedin the work of Mexican artist JoséGuadalupe Posada.

Short form: It’s got lots and lots ofcalaveras, the familiar skulls and, occa-sionally, full-size skeletons that representthe dead in celebrations for the tradi-tional November 1 Mexican holiday.

Imperial Silence comprises four acts,made up of mariachi music, animationand dance. While each act has its ownstyle, each is also linked by how it repre-sents our cultural understanding of death.

“We call it an opera—a dead opera—to offer a commentary about elitecultural expression,” said Leaños, a BayArea artist whose works have beenexhibited at the Sundance Film Festival;the San Francisco Museum of ModernArt; and the Museum of ContemporaryArt, Los Angeles. Leaños is currently anassistant professor of social documenta-tion in the Film and Digital Mediadepartment at UC Santa Cruz.

It’s important to remember, he adds,that opera was once popular culture,

consumed by the working classes whenthey had leisure time.

“It was the equivalent of peoplegoing to the movies today,” Leañossaid. “Then, over the years, it devel-oped into the elite form we know now,where many of the opera houses pro-duce work from previous centuriesover and over again.

“It’s work, sometimes, that’s keptalive in a petri dish.”

Since the opera’s so close to dead,why not invite the dead into it? One pos-sibility for making opera accessible is tointroduce the incredibly popular cav-aleras figures from the Day of the Deadto reinvigorate the genre. So Leaños—and his collaborators in Imperial Silence,choreographer Joel Valentin-Martinez;deejay and composer Cristóbal Martinez;and Los Cuatro Vientos, a Tucson, Ariz.,mariachi ensemble—created a mixtureof animation, music, dance, and visualspectacle.

This is what’s called “social art,” and,in this case, it’s a multimedia extrava-ganza. It is, Leaños said, “cultural andcreative activity intended to comment onthe world, to witness with the hope thatpersonal and social transformation willoccur through it.”

And social art bears a close relation-ship to guerrilla theater, agitprop, andsuch diverse pop-cultural phenomena asstreet art and graffiti. But it’s also anopera—of the dead.

It really does go back to Posada. Acentury ago, he made cartoon-styledrawings of skeletons that are stillwidely used and imitated in Mexicanand Mexican-American folk and pop-ular art.

Songs about the dead should alwaysbe played in B minor chords.

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10 College Parkway in Folsom;(916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

A FOUR-PART DIA DE LOS MUERTOS-THEMEDOPERA USES MULTIMEDIA, MUSIC, DANCE,

ART—AND, OF COURSE, BONES—TO UNLOCK ACULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEAD

Caught blue-handedFall’s finally in the air, painting flora rust and gold—except at the northwest end of the SacramentoConvention Center, where the trunks and limbs of 20young sycamores sport a coat of shocking ultramarineblue. On 13th Street, the blue trees startle. Juxtaposedagainst the contrasting golden leaves, the paintedwood offers a surreal, otherworldly and whimsicaltouch to the little esplanade that separates theconvention center from the K Street Mall.A couple of Thursdays ago, the culprits were caughtblue-handed. Australian environmental artist KonstantinDimopoulos, abetted by the Sacramento TreeFoundation executive director Ray Tretheway, workedfrom a cherry picker as he slapped the nontoxic painton the trees. Blue paint spattered Dimopoulous’ face—

even his lower lip, as if he’dbeen sipping through astraw—and stainedTretheway’s crisp whiteSacramento TreeFoundation shirt.“I try to get trees that areclose together, so that it’slike walking into acathedral, the treesbecome like pillars in achurch,” the artistexplained. “Normally, Istart painting in the spring.With these,” he gestured,“the leaves will disappear

and then come back.” (The environmentally friendlypaint lasts six months to create a temporary public-art installation.)

With an international focus to call attention toglobal deforestation, Dimopoulos’ hand has alreadymarked trees in Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, NewZealand; Vancouver, Canada; and Seattle, Washington;with his future stops scheduled for Gainesville, Florida;and Houston.

“The Blue Trees is part of a wider question that Iask: ‘Can art save the world?’ Maybe not on its own, butit can generate thinking and discussion throughoutthe global community,” he said.

And Sacramento—the City of Trees—is a perfectvenue for this message.

“The project includes 40 container trees we painted,too,” Tretheway said. “Ten heat-tolerant maple treesand 30 hybrid Dutch elm disease-resistant trees, tobring attention to the plight of our elms dying.”

The container trees are making their way aroundthe region, some serving as conversation pieces atevents, others in it for the long haul at 555 Capitol Mall.

Shelly Willis, Sacramento Metropolitan ArtsCommission interim executive director and arts-in-public-places director, praised the efforts.

“It’s amazing how this project came together,” shesaid. “The community came together, donating $25,000to fly him from Australia and fund this project.”

But even without one cent of public funding forBlue Trees, some grumble the money could have beenused for something else.

What? Trees make cleaner air and we need tobreathe. Compared to the billions poured into promotethis election, Blue Trees smells like a sweet deal.

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Learn more at www.sactree.org.

Posada printed “broadsheets that hadstories and images of calaveras, these skele-tons who were always making fun of theliving and offering social commentary,”Leaños said.

One of the most famous is “La CalaveraCatrina.”

“She’s wealthy, upper class, one of thoseladies who thinks she’s better than everyoneelse. Of course, the reality is that she’s dead.There’s no one left to be better than.”

It’s this funny, satirical approach todeath that makes the subject tenable forus, Leaños said. He noted the irony inhaving a cultural obsession with deathwhile remaining unable to discuss it.

“Cornel West says we’re death denyingand death defying,refusing to come toterms with death,”Leaños said. All this,he adds, even as we’refascinated by videogames, movies, televi-sion shows and musicin which people dieconstantly and gruesomely.

“We’re blowing up people in fantasy,but we can’t face the reality of death,”Leaños said. “We can’t see the coffinscoming back from Iraq and Afghanistan;we can’t look upon what our fascinationwith violence does; we can’t see too muchreality.”

Enter the calavera. And the cartoon.One act of Imperial Silence is titled

“Deadtime Stories With Mariachi Gooseand Friends,” and the animation, songs andstories in this section derive from familiarchildhood rhymes. These stories, Leañossaid, “originally had some indigenousEuropean meaning.” For instance, theHumpty Dumpty story may have beenabout a large cannon that fell from a dam-aged wall and could not be remounted.

But the story has “no meaning to us anylonger,” he said. “It has become kind of ahollow story, a dead story, and in the secondact, we use animation and music to till thisopen field.

“We’re using this hollow, open space ofchildren’s rhymes and stories to tell a new,more engaged story.”

It’s a reminder to the audience thatalthough we live in a media-saturated timeand place, we are also capable of produc-ing and reproducing our own stories usingthat media.

“As artists, our obligation is to commenton society, to offer alternatives to corporatemedia. So we’re getting at the idea that ourculture is our own to make,” Leaños said.

Imperial Silence makes use of animation,mariachi music, folkloric dance (baile folk-lórico), drums, and what Leaños calls“hybridized flamenco and modern dance.”

“We’re putting in everything,” he said.The first act is “Los ABCs ¡Qué Vivan los

Muertos!” (“The ABCs: How the DeadLive”), in which animation and music areused to explore issues of war, colonialism andthe acquisition of empire. The second act ismade up of the reimagining of nursery rhymes.

In “¡Radio Muerto!” the third act, thescene is ever changing, but the channel isn’t.“Imagine that you’re sitting in the back of acar, and you don’t have control of the radio,”said Leaños. “It’s a long road trip, which isthe story of the American West.”

“¡Radio Muerto!” simulates a road trip, hesaid, and “there are certain things to dealwith. It’s the coming of age.”

The final act, “DNN: Dead NewsNetwork,” depicts the calaveras taking overthe newscast and putting their own uniquespin on current events.

“[It’s] more adult—not in the R-ratedsense, but in the sense of being an adult,”Leaños said.

The big advantage to such a multilayered,multimedia approach to art is the accessibilityit grants to both artist and audience. Usinganimation in addition to other art forms is abig plus, because who doesn’t love a cartoon?

“You can build audiences in various dif-ferent circles,” Leaños said. “This piece hasbeen shown in film festivals. The animationis online and can be downloaded to youriPhone. It’s been shown on public television,

and it’s to be shown inthe theater as well.”

(The installationaspect of ImperialSilence, unfortu-nately, won’t be atthe Three Stages pro-duction. It’s a car, ElMuertorider [“thedeath rider”], and it

can be seen on Leoñas’ website.)And, while the multimedia aspect might

be new, the idea of art as a social agent is asold as—well, as bones in a crypt.

“People have been practicing it for manyyears,” Leaños said. “The Mexican muralists,the indigenous potters who embodied theircosmology in their work, or even contempo-rary social action like the Occupymovement—it’s all a legacy of art as a cata-lyst for social change.”

It’s a tradition that Leaños finds possi-bilities in, and, he said, he hopes peoplewill recognize “how the Day of theDead—Día de los Muertos—has crossedthe border and inserted itself into theaterand art.”

“It is a live tradition—no pun intended. Itis this undying tradition of undying death.”

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“WE’RE BLOWING UP PEOPLE IN FANTASY, BUT WE CAN’T FACETHE REALITY OF DEATH. WE CAN’T SEE THE COFFINS COMINGBACK FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN; WE CAN’T LOOK UPONWHAT OUR FASCINATION WITH VIOLENCE DOES.”

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MIDTOWN TRICK-OR-TREAT & POOCH PARADE An annual tradition in Midtown, this eventoften sees upward of 100 costumed dogsroaming through the central city. Kids’ activi-ties and trick-or-treating follows the poochparade. Saturday, October 27; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; free. Marshall Park, 915 27th Street;www.exploremidtown.org/MidtownHalloween.

TRUNK OR TREAT A good opportunity for kids to get dressedup and go trick-or-treating, Trunk or Treatat the California Automobile Museum fea-tures trunks filled with candy, tours and acar-education center. Saturday, October27; 1 to 4 p.m.; $8 for adults, free admissionfor kids. California Automobile Museum,2200 Front Street; (916) 442-6802;www.calautomuseum.org.

SAFE & SUPER HALLOWEEN: A GRIMM HALLOWEENKids can view decorations inspired by theGrimm brothers’ classic fairy tales, trickor treat at 17 candy stations and viewpuppet shows throughout the day. October26-28, 5 to 9 p.m. daily; $10-$12. FairytaleTown, 3901 Land Park Drive; (916) 808-5233;www.fairytaletown.org.

MONSTER MASH Knock down some pins, wear costumes, winprizes and hear the surf and retro rock ofthe Lava Pups, the Sneaky Tikis and theRockabilly Love Cats. Sunday, October 28; 1 to 4 p.m.; free. 900 West Capitol Avenue inWest Sacramento; (916) 371-4200;http://capbowl.businesscatalyst.com.

BOO AT THE ZOOGeared for kids 10 and under, this event fea-tures trick-or-treating, games, a costumeparty and magic shows. The Spooky Trainand Creepy Carousel cost extra. Tuesday,October 30, and Wednesday, October 31; 5 to 8 p.m.; $10-$12. Sacramento Zoo, 3930 West Land Park Drive; (916) 808-5888;www.saczoo.org/page.aspx?pid=360.

WEE HALLOWEENFor kids ages 5 and under, Wee Halloween isan artistic alternative to trick-or-treating.Kids can dress in costumes, view art, createtreat bags, and see live music, poetry anddance performances throughout the muse-um. Wednesday, October 31; 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.;

$15. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; (916) 808-7000;www.crockerartmuseum.org.

PANTEON DE SACRAMENTO Celebrate Día de los Muertoswith La Raza Galería Posada’s Panteón deSacramento public-art installation. Theannual exhibition features traditionalMexican altars honoring ancestors for Dayof the Dead. Saturday, October 27; 11 a.m. to11 p.m.; and Sunday, October 28; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; free. Parking lot at 2020 J Street, (916) 446-5133, www.lrgp.org.

NIGHT OF 1,000 PUMPKINSAn annual tradition to line the street with1,000 jack-o’-lanterns continues for thefourth year in Folsom. This bring-your-ownjack-o’-lantern event also features trick-or-treating and screenings of It’s the GreatPumpkin, Charlie Brown and Ghostbusters.Friday, October 26; 6 p.m.; free. SutterStreet in Folsom, www.1000pumpkins.com.

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IF YOU DIDN’TALREADY KNOW,Halloween is basically the mostcelebrated holiday in Sacramento.In fact, a quick search yieldedmore than 40 major Halloweenevents this week alone. Perhapsit’s due to the fact that Octoberweather is often pleasant—or thatSacramentans love to dress up incostumes. But really, who cares? Itjust means this week is full of hellacool Halloween-themed events.Here are SN&R’s top 20 picks.

PROFESSIONAL GUILD’S HALLOWEEN PARTYThis huge party—for those 21 andover—is geared toward single profes-sionals—though couples are also wel-come. Attendees are encouraged todress in a funny, sexy or lightheartedcostume. Friday, October 26; 8 p.m.; $10-$20. Hilton Hotel Arden West, 2200 Harvard Street, (800) 838-3006;www.proguildsocial.com.

A NIGHTMARE ON TRASH STREET Catch a screening of A Nightmare on ElmStreet hosted by the Trash Film Orgy.

The 18-and-over event also features alive stage show, horror shorts,

drinks, costumes and games.

Wednesday, October 31; 8 p.m.; $10 ($9 with a costume). Crest Theater, 1013 K Street; http://trashfilmorgy.com.

ZOMBIE … RUNRun for your life in this high-conceptvariant of school-yard tag. Runners (age15 or older) attempt to complete a 5k runfeaturing zombies and man-made obsta-cles. Preregistration is required.Saturday, October 27; 8 a.m.; $20-$40 forparticipants; $5 for spectators. Miller Park, 2790 Marina View Drive;www.sacramentozombierun.com.

SHANNON MCCABE’S VAMPIRE BALLThis vampire-themed 21-and-over

party features tons of music: an out-door stage with bands including the

New Pioneers, Restrayned andVamp Le Stat, and an indoor

stage with deejays DavidV, Bryan Hawk and Norman

Stradley. Saturday, October 27; 8 p.m.;$20 in advance. Placer County Fair &Events Center, 800 All America CityBoulevard in Roseville; www.shannonmccabe.com.

MASQUERADE BALL FOR THE FALLNo Halloween costumes at this 21-and-over party; just high-class masquerademasks and “cocktail attire,” according toorganizers. Hear live music and eat horsd’oeuvres. Proceeds go toward theSacramento City College OutstandingWomen Awards. Saturday, October 27; 9 p.m.; $50-$95. Antiquité Maison Privee, 2114 P Street; (916) 670-4035; www.gayetrimaya.com.

EXOTIC HALLOWEEN BALL Presented by KZZO 100.5 FM, the ExoticHalloween Ball attempts to be the sexiest21-and-over party of the year, with lapdances, Sizzling Sirens Burlesque showsand pole dancers. Pop music will be per-formed by Gavin Degraw and Pete Wentz& the Black Cards. Saturday, October 27;8:30 p.m.; $34-$39. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard;http://now100fm.cbslocal.com/2012-exotic-halloween-ball.

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HEARTSTOPPERS HAUNTED HOUSE Located at an abandoned arcade andmini-golf course, this haunted attrac-tion features four separate buildingstitled: The Deadlands, Dr. Lash’sSlideshow, Steamghast Asylum andHangtown Trail. October 25-28, andOctober 31; $15-$20. 2300 Mine ShaftLane in Rancho Cordova; (916) 572-2733;www.scaredyou.com.

HAUNTED STACKS This event at the Central Branch of theSacramento Public Library will feature“re-enactor ghosts,” classic horror-film screenings and haunted tours ofthe Sacramento Room, according to apublicist. Friday, October 26; 7 to 9 p.m.;free. Sacramento Public Library, 828 IStreet; (916) 264-2770; www.saclib.org.

THE HAUNT AT WRIGHT HALL The UC Davis Department of Theatre& Dance has organized a perform-ance-based haunted house and danceparty at its headquarters on campus.It features seven stages and nightlycostumed dances to end eachevening. October 25-28, and October30-31; 7:30 p.m. to midnight; $10-$15;

1 Shields Avenue, Wright Hall in Davis; (530) 752-5863; http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

MANSION AFTER DARKMansion After Dark is a kid-friendlyhaunted house alternative heldupstairs at Governor’s Mansion StateHistoric Park. It features dim lighting,scary music and fortune tellers.October 26-27, 6 to 9 p.m.; $4-$8. 1526 H Street, (916) 323-5916,www.parks.ca.gov/governorsmansion.

THE HAUNTED FORT Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park turnsinto a family-friendly haunted housewith actors portraying pioneers. Heartales of historical deaths while takingtours of the fort. October 26-27, 6:30 to 9 p.m.; $6-$8. Sutter’s Fort State HistoricPark, 2701 L Street; (916) 445-4422;www.parks.ca.gov/suttersfort.

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No cookie for you!Desperately seeking Sac’s most popular foods

someone’s bubbie to get yours. FreeportBakery, 2966 Freeport Boulevard; (916) 442-4256; www.freeportbakery.com.

Peanut-butter mochi timeOsaka-Ya is equally famous for its sweets andshaved ice. The rarest sweet treat here is apeanut-butter-filled mochi creation, preparedonly on the weekends. There are four styles tochoose from and all four run out quickly.Osaka-Ya, 2215 10th Street; (916) 446-6857;www.osakaya-wagashi.com.

Pho queueHere’s another so-called Soup Nazi: TheVietnamese mother running Pho Anh Dao has areputation for making the best chicken pho intown. There are often long lines during lunch,and the place regularly runs out of the dailysoup. Word on the street is that Anh Daoreopens for late-night eats on Friday andSaturday nights. Pho Anh Dao, 6830 StocktonBoulevard, Suite 165; (916) 428-2826.

Chairman baoSwallow your pride and order some Chinesebuns, or bao, from Lam Kwong Deli & Market.Reviewers on Yelp have long complained of a“Bao Nazi”—a certain employee who treats cus-tomers coldly, expects a quick transaction andnever partakes in small talk. But who needssmall talk? The buns here are reputably deli-cious. Lam Kwong Deli & Market, 2031 12th Street; (916) 443-8805; http://themenupage.com/lamkwongdelimarket. Ω

Several Seinfeld episodes touch on the subject of eatingout and the fickle nature of obtaining foodfrom popular restaurants and bakeries. There’sthe episode about a Jewish deli that alwaysruns out of marble rye (Jerry steals the last loaffrom an old grandma); the one about a Chineserestaurant so busy that no one can seem toreserve a seat; and, of course, the one with theinfamous Soup Nazi, a talented but tempera-mental chef who refuses to serve customerswho rub him the wrong way.

Sacramento has its own quirky food experi-ences. Here’s a list of seven local foods thatyou’ll be lucky to get at all.

Queen of cookiesOften called the “queen” of Sacramento’s cook-ies, Goodie Tuchews owner and lone baker TerryO’Reilly makes a limited amount of cookiesevery day. Some flavors run out fast, and whenthey’re gone, you’ll have to wait for another dayto get one. The place officially closes at 3:30p.m. every day, but O’Reilly says she’ll shut itdown before that if she sells out of cookies first.Then, she’ll put up a sign that says, “No morecookies today.” Goodie Tuchews, 1015 L Street;(916) 444-6048.

You’ll get servedDaniel Pont is known by some locals asSacramento’s Soup Nazi. His former lunch-onlyrestaurant La Bonne Soupe Cafe had notoriouslylong lines and prioritized quality over everythingelse—including service. The same philosophyapplies at Chez Daniel, Pont’s newer dinner-onlyrestaurant, which serves traditional French foodpaired with a side of unusual service. It’s difficultto obtain reservations, and once seated, onemight get served a dish not of one’s choice—justbecause it’s the only dish left in the kitchen. Chez Daniel, 49 Natoma Street in Folsom; (916) 353-1938.

Prince of pizzasPizza Rock only sells 73 margherita pizzas perday. Why? It’s to honor the day owner TonyGemignani won the World Pizza Champions withthe aforementioned pizza: June 13, 2007, or 6/13.According to the restaurant’s website, combinethe 6 and 1 to make 7, then slap the leftover 3 onthe end to get 73. Yes, it’s a twisted logic, andPizza Rock has only run out of the margherita onone occasion since the restaurant opened a fewyears back. Pizza Rock, 1020 K Street; (916) 737-5777; www.pizzarocksacramento.com.

Steal this bread?Freeport Bakery is revered for its cakes, muffins,doughnuts, cookies and potato knishes. But it’sthe challah, a kosher bread eaten on the JewishSabbath, that often runs out here. It’s chewy,eggy and semisweet. It’s like Sacramento’smarble rye: You might need to steal a loaf from

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Luxury wields no whiskPlunging a spoon into premade cookiedough is such an act of decadence,because, really, it’s so easy to makedough oneself. But, like Barack Obama,let me be clear: Luxury wields no whisk.So when a craving for indulgence pres-ents itself, options for quelling it includeEatPastry’s 14-ounce tubs of chocolatechip, peanut-butter chocolate chip orgluten-free chocolate chip—or takehome one of each, since excess is thetheme (more flavors and where to buyat www.eatpastry.com). The vegandough from this San Diego-based com-pany can be baked into cookies, too, ofcourse. However, sprinkling salt on thecookies when they’re removed from theoven is strongly recommended.

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DowntownEstelle’s Patisserie With itsmarble tables and light woodenchairs, there’s an airy atmosphere,casual and cozy. Estelle’s offers anespresso bar and a wide assort-ment of teas and muffins and rollsfor the breakfast crowd as well assweets, including DayGlo macarons.For the lunch-inclined, there aresoups, salads, sandwiches and meator meatless quiche. One of theauthentic touches is the spare useof condiments. The smoked salmonis enlivened by dill and the flavor ofits croissant. Its tomato bisque isthick and richly flavored, and, in anice touch, a puff pastry floats inthe tureen as accompaniment.Everything is surprisingly reason-able. Half a sandwich and soup is$7.25. A caprese baguette is $5.25.Ham and cheese is $5.75. There’s alot to like about Estelle’s—exceptdinner. Doors close at 6pm. French.901 K St., (916) 551-1500. Meal forone: $5-$10. 1⁄2 G.L.

Grange Restaurant & Bar Youwon’t find any “challenging” disheson this menu—just delicious localand seasonal food such as theGreen Curry & Pumpkin Soup,which has a Southeast-Asian flair.

A spinach salad features ingredi-ents that could be considered bor-ing elsewhere: blue-cheese dress-ing, bacon, onion. But here, the

sharply cheesy but-termilk dressing andthe woodsy pine nutsmake it a salad toremember. Grange’sbrunch puts other

local offerings to shame. The homefries are like marvelously crispySpanish patatas bravas. A grilled-ham-and-Gruyere sandwich is justbuttery enough, and an egg-whitefrittata is more than a bonethrown to the cholesterol-chal-lenged, it’s a worthy dish in itsown right. American. 926 J St., (916) 492-4450. Dinner for one: $40-$60. B.G.

MidtownFirestone Public HouseA sports bar with afocus on craft beerisn’t exactly agroundbreaking con-cept, but two localand prominentrestaurant families,the Wongs and theDeVere Whites, knowwhat Sacramentowants: good beer; solidpub grub; and a casual,unpretentious atmos-phere. Here, the bar isthe centerpiece with a fullstock of liquor and 60beers on draught. Themenu features savoryappetizers—the tortillasoup with poached chicken,avocado and tomato is par-ticularly noteworthy—and a

selection of sandwiches and pizzas,including a simple pie with freshmozzarella and tomato sauce.American. 1132 16th St., (916) 446-0888. Dinner for one: $15-$20. B.G.

The Porch The Porch is light andwhite with a vibe that suggests theairy sweep of an antebellumCharleston eatery. One can onlyenvy the extensive on-siteresearch conducted by chef JonClemens and business partnersJohn Lopez and Jerry Mitchell, cre-ators of Capitol Garage. The mostenjoyable menu selections are sal-ads or seafood sandwiches or

entrees. Slaw on the barbecue porksandwich elevates its status, andits pickled vegetables are sweet andtart, adding an additional dimen-sion. The shrimp and grits dish,while laden with cheddar andgravy, is a synergistic mélange—perhaps The Porch’s trademarkdish. Also in the running is thepurloo, the low country’s versionof jambalaya, with andouille,crunchy crawfish appendages, andthe same sautéed bell peppers andonions that also appear in the grits.Southern. 1815 K St., (916) 444-2423.Dinner for one: $20-$30. G.L.

Shady Lady Saloon So manybars try to do bar snacks, and somany fail. Shady Lady, however,nails it. The fried green tomatoesare punched up with a tarragonrémoulade and the huge charcu-terie board is more like a groaningboard, stocked with abundantregional meats and cheeses. Thepickle plate looks like PeterRabbit’s dream, all teeny turnipsand tangy carrot chunks.Generally excellent, the saloon’scocktail list veers from the classicswith a list of bartender-createddrinks with unusual, but wiselyconsidered flavor combinations:cilantro and tequila, blackberry

and thyme, and the surprisinglysublime mixture of celery andpineapple. American. 1409 R St.,(916) 231-9121.$10-$20. 1⁄2 B.G.

North SacAsian Café serves both Thai andLao food, but go for the Lao special-ties, which rely on flavoring staplessuch as fish sauce, lime juice, galan-gal and lemongrass, lots of herbs,and chilies. One of the most com-mon dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, adish of chopped meat laced withherbs, chilies and lime. At AsianCafé, it adds optional offal add-ons—various organ meats, entrails,

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Welcome to beautiful San LeandroThe pilgrimage to Russian River Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa is theequivalent of Mecca to any Californian beer lover, but if you are tired ofthe crowds and the cardboardy pizza there, why not pay a visit to Drake’sBrewing Company’s Barrel House in beautiful … San Leandro. Maybe not sopicturesque, tucked as it is in a warehouse behind a Walmart. But they’vegot some intriguing beers on tap and a cooler of bottled Drake’s beersthat can be elusive in Sac, including the seasonal Aroma Prieta, an IPAmade with all the trendy New Zealand hops. The hoppy beers at Drake’srun the international-bittering-unit gamut from the dainty 1500 Pale Aleand the fresh-hopped Batch 4000 (at 48 and 55, respectively), to thepalate demolisher that is the Denogginizer (at 90). There is also a fullselection of nonhoppy braus, including a Märzen that is a textbookexample of that style, a Hefe (for the ladies), and three different blendsof porters, stouts and ales aged in bourbon and brandy barrels. Take that,Russian River! 1933 Davis Street, Building 177 in San Leandro; (510) 568-2739; http://barrelhouse.drinkdrakes.com.

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Beer: Hoptologist (double IPA, on draft)Brewer: Knee Deep Brewing Company in LincolnWhere: Burgers & Brew, 1409 R Street; (916) 442-0900; www.burgersbrew.com

Beer: RainierBrewer: Rainier Brewing CompanyWhere: Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., 1630 S Street; (916) 442-4885,www.facebook.com/HookandLadderSacramento

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South SacGiò Cha Duc HuongSandwiches With banh mi, it’sthe bread that sets the tone. GiòCha Duc Huong Sandwiches goesagainst the grain with breadthat’s more football shaped thansubmarine shaped, garlic bread,and a selection of premade grab-and-go sandwiches right bythe counter. And, with its substi-tution of butter for mayonnaiseand the emphasis on pâté, DucHuong shows a stronger thanusual French influence.Thesedetails may seem trivial, but withbanh mi, such small variationsmake all the difference. The smallmenu is limited to eight sand-wiches (mostly pork) and twosoups: chicken curry soup and abeef stew called bo kho banh mi,which comes with bread. There’sa thick float of chili oil on top ofthe yellow, turmeric and lemon-grass-laced curry soup, which, at

first, is off-putting until you real-ize it can be dipped into theyeasty, crusty, fluffy bread.Vietnamese.6825 Stockton Blvd.,Ste. 200; (916) 428-1188. Dinner forone: $5-$10. 1⁄2 B.G.

Pho King 2 Pho King 2 takes din-ers on a trip to crazy-delicioustown with its salads, includingone off-the-menu salad featuringcold, pink tendon smothered inpickled daikon, carrot, crunchygarlic chips and peanutss andserved with sweet fish saucedressing. A beef with lemon salad,with thin slices of eye of round“cured” in lemon juice, is coatedwith sesame oil, herbs and chiliflakes and is meant to be piled onrice crackers studded with blacksesame seeds. It’s an incredibledish, and one you won’t find on amenu very often. Vietnamese.6830 Stockton Blvd., (916) 395-9244. Dinner for one: $10-$20. B.G.

La Victoria Mercado yCarniceria No. 2 If you break-fast or lunch here on a weekend,you’ll likely encounter parties ofbleary-eyed men conversing overlarge bowls of menudo, but LaVictoria has plenty of other dish-es on offer: breakfast plates,chile verde and roja, tacos, andtortas. In general, the food herehas a reliable mid-level heat, butit distinguishes itself with its“normal” tacos, especially thecow-based ones, such as cabezaand lengua, and also its asada,which demonstrates a mastery ofthe cow: fatty, well-salted steakwith a hint of garlic. They are

served on tortillas fried in oil—which just adds to the decadenceof the piled-up tacos. Mexican.6830 Stockton Boulevard, (916) 427-1745. Breakfast or lunchfor one: $5-$10. B.G.

Tacos & Beer This is one of thearea’s best Michoacán restau-rants. Of its regional dishes, theenchiladas Apatzingán areunusual, filled with only a smat-tering of sharp cheese and dicedonion, soaked in a vinegarysauce, and smothered in verylightly pickled, shredded cabbagewith raw hunks of radish andavocado slices. Another specialtyis the morisqueta—the ultimatecomfort dish due to the uniquetexture of the white rice, which isas soft as an angel’s buttock.Diners also have the option toorder hand-shaped, griddled-to-order tortillas. They are warm,soft, taste like corn and barelyresemble those cardboard thingsyou get at the store. Mexican.5701 Franklin Blvd., (916) 428-7844.Dinner for one: $10-$20.1⁄2 B.G.

DavisZen Toro Japanese Bistro & Sushi Bar Zen Toro features alarge sushi menu, made up ofboth the steroidal Americanizedrolls and traditional nigiri, but italso changes seasonally and fea-tures some uncommon offerings:Kinpira gobo with renkon (braisedlotus and burdock-root salad)comprises matchstick-sizedfibrous pieces of burdock rootand juicy slices of lotus in a sweet

mirin soy sauce. It also featuresinventive desserts. The “uji kinto-ki parfait” (it translates roughlyto “Best. Dessert. Ever.”) isserved in a sundae glass filledwith layers of green-tea icecream and sweet red beans, andit’s topped with whipped cream,chocolate Pocky candy, saltysesame crackers, peanut clus-ters, and warm, soft squares ofmochi. Sushi. 132 E Street in Davis, (530) 753-0154. Dinner for one: $10-$25. 1⁄2 B.G.

Nevada CityThe Willo The Willo’s menu issimple, centered on a slab ofmeat and starchy sides—although the restaurant hasadded a veggie burger to itslineup. While the thick, smokypork chop and the tender, but-terflied half-chicken suffice,here it’s really all about theNew York strip steak offered insmall, medium and large por-tions. If you’re not the desig-nated driver, slip into the barfor a shot to lull you during thelong drive home. The sassy bar-tender will fix you right up asyou take in the curving walls ofthis prefab structure from along-gone era, the E ClampusVitus plaques and the regulars’birthdays listed on the wall.American. 16898 State Hwy. 49 inNevada City, (530) 265-9902.Dinner for one: $20-$40. B.G.

Pull up a seat at the troughAttention, foodies: Head to Dinner on the Farm this Saturday.Sit with the 149 other guests who will each throw down$100 to support the Center for Land-Based Learning (5265Putah Creek Road in Winters). It’s well worth the money forcuisine prepared by famous chef Nate Appleman, star of theFood Network show The Next Iron Chef: Redemption. Currentlyhelming Chipotle Mexican Grill’s test kitchen in New York City,Appleman won the Rising Star Chef award from the JamesBeard Foundation, and was named a Best New Chef by Food& Wine magazine—both in 2009. He’ll create an innovativemenu of Mexican-influenced food, using strictly localingredients. It features sea-urchin tamales with radish andjalapeño; sweet-potato crepes with kale and queso fresco;and walnut polvorones with chocolate, quince andcinnamon crema. It’s on Saturday, October 27, from 5 to 9 p.m. Visit http://landbasedlearning.org/dinner for moreinformation.

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To the boneSKULLSSimon Winchester has written evocatively about the volcanic eruption that destroyed two-thirds of Krakatoa in the 19th century, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the Oxford English Dictionary. Now, the subject is skulls, those bony inner faces without which our great minds would be impossible. In Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dud-ley’s Curious Collection (Black Dog 

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curates and describes—with stunning photographs by Nick Mann—skulls collected by Dudley. Dudley seems nothing short of obsessed: In some cases, items in his collection were “harvested” and sold illegally, which led to his arrest in 2008. Despite that dis-tasteful bit of knowledge, clearly 

conveyed upfront, the images are incredible, and Winchester’s ac-companying essays are intriguing. Winchester points out details such as the sagittal crests on the skulls of predators, which makes possible 

their ferocity, yet are barely vis-ible in a living animal. 

It’s a reminder that we’re all similar under the skin—in a certain sense, a skull is a skull is a skull—except where differences illustrate how adaptation to our environment and evolution have changed us so thoroughly. But the book does take a dark detour when Winchester describes the rapid extinction of the dodo. “The dodo died before our very eyes,” he writes, “and its passing shames us still.” 

Yet, there is its skull, a stark reminder that every gorgeous skull in this beautiful book once housed the brain, ears and eyes of something alive. 

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Earlier this month, the University of Phoenix Sacra-mento Valley Campus teamed with the online charity 

program DonorsChoose.org and crowd-funding site GOOD Maker to launch the 

Sacrameno Region Literacy Challenge. The goal: to in-vite community members to come up with new ways to foster literacy in the region. The open submission period ends at noon on Friday, October 26. Then, from Tuesday, October 30, to Tuesday, November 13, the ideas go up for public vote. The winning submis-sion earns a $10,000 DonorsChoose.org gift card, and 10 runners-up will each be awarded a $2,500 gift card. In an election season mired in heated and oft-confusing rhetoric, this is one vote that really does count. http://sacramento-literacy.maker.good.is.

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Ever since Dragon Gourmet Mushrooms’ Roxana Walker and Sabina Monteiro decided to “go big or go home,” their mushrooms have shown up on menus all over Sacramento. I especially like the grilled-cheese-

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My wife schedules activities every weekend with extended family, and she loses it in front of the kids when I tell her that I don’t want to go. She is extremely controlling, never sees it and spins the whole thing like I don’t care about her and our kids.

The truth is, I’m exhausted. I run around at work, run around

keeping stuff together at home, and I just want time to chill. She doesn’t get it and makes me into the bad guy every time. After five years, I’m sick of it and her. Is there any way to get her to see that she’s completely unfair? Or should

I just throw in the towel?Hold on to the towel, honey. Use it to absorb your frustration. The prob-lem is that you and your wife have opposing methods of replenishing energy. Hanging out with a frothy mix of kids and adults appeals to her because she is an extrovert who gains energy by being around scads of people. You are an introvert who needs time alone to replenish your energy. Unscheduled time on the weekend rejuvenates you. Introverts and extroverts approach life differ-ently, but neither way is superior. The important thing is to take care of yourself in the manner best suited to your personality.

Your wife’s extroverted personal-ity is only a fraction of the equation. She believes that a full schedule of activities with extended family is the right way to live. Her family of origin believes so, too. She may experience their affirmation as evidence that she is right. And instead of understanding that you have a different perspective, she thinks you are wrong.

Engaging in black-and-white thinking is easy for your wife, far easier than facing her internal fears about what others will think if she’s

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Introverts and extroverts approach life differently, but neither way is superior. The important thing is to take care of yourself.

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flying solo. She is also afraid that you don’t really love her. In her mind, if you loved her, you would do what she wants you to do. Yes, that means she is controlling and somewhat inflexible. No, that doesn’t mean divorce court is in your future. But you do need to have a heart-to-heart conversation. Explain, in detail, why you require downtime. Tell her how drained you feel when subjected to a schedule full of social activities. Let her know that you love her and want to spend time as a family. Be willing to negotiate commitments so that you can join her on occasion but also have time to yourself. It might be wise to have this chat in the presence of a third party, like a skilled psychotherapist. A neutral third party can help your wife value your needs and vice versa.

One of my co-workers always gives advice to other married women in our office. The thing is, she is on her third marriage. I am single and find it extremely irritating when she goes on and on talking about how perfect her marriage is. What is the best thing to say to shut her up?Nothing will work. So try it: Say nothing to her. Instead, have a dialogue with yourself. Ask yourself why you stick around to listen to a co-worker’s opinion when you know that the experience irritates you. What is it about being irritated that you enjoy? Why not smile kindly and excuse yourself? Of course, you could also open your heart and mind when she opens her mouth. That’s right, glean any tidbits of wisdom that might appear. After all, it is possible that a twice-divorced woman has something to teach you, but you can’t know until you ditch your resistance.

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The Rocky Horror Show and steampunkers: a match madein heaven—or, as heaven is known to Rockycult followers, Transsexual, Transylvania. GreenValley Theatre Company presents its annualHalloween production of The Rocky HorrorShow, and as usual, mixes it up a bit. Thisyear’s production, labeled “Rocky IV,” is a mid-night-madness marriage of two creative cultfollowings, the Rocky’s and the steampunkers.

For the uninitiated, Rocky Horror is acampy sci-fi B-horror-movie sexual-fantasymusical, while steampunkers are fantasy fansthat pay homage to Victorian-era costumes andsci-fi technology of the sort celebrated by writ-ers like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Thoughthe two groups are not known to hang aroundtogether, they do have much in common—role-playing, costuming, loyal fans, great visualeffects and a passion for audience participation.

The first two weekends of the show (mid-night on Friday and Saturday; 8 p.m. Sunday)brought out the fans of both, with audiencesmuch engaged and creatively attired. Andbefore the show, Rocky virgins are taught the“time warp” dance, a move that hypes the antic-ipation. Then, the impressive live band hits thefirst notes, and Brad and Janet seal their fatewhen their Victorian-era “buggy” breaks down,and they knock on castle door of pansexual,cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

The rest of the plot doesn’t really matter,since none of this makes much sense, anyway.

This talented cast is so much fun to watch,with enthusiastic leads and backup “phan-toms.” But the equally impressive co-stars ofthis Rocky are the amazing costumes (designedby Lindsay Grimes) and the remarkable props(by “Mad Scientist” Phillip Baldwin), allvisual wonders to behold. Ω

The Rocky Horror Show, midnight on Friday, Saturday; 8 p.m.Sunday; plus a special Halloween performance at midnight onWednesday, October 31; $18. Green Valley Theatre Company atthe Grange Performing Arts Center, 3823 V Street; (916) 736-2664; www.greenvalleytheatre.com. Through October 31.

It’s astounding!The Rocky Horror Show

Shades of grayThe Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 play The SunsetLimited has no coin-flipping hit man or post-apocalyptic cannibals, but in this productionby the Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento, itbenefits from a couple of major advantages:Ed Claudio and James Wheatley. The twolocal master actors face off against each otherin this existential play of ideas, and despite itbeing—rightly so—a play that critics havefound entirely too tied to dialogue, they makeit as lively as its subject: life itself.

Claudio plays White, a college professorand avowed atheist. Wheatley is Black, an ex-convict-turned-evangelical Christian. The entireplay takes place in Black’s small, Spartan apart-ment, as the two wrangle their way around themeaning—or lack thereof—of life.

Did I mention that immediately beforethe play began, White had attempted to killhimself by jumping in front of the SunsetLimited train?

That puts a bit of pressure on the discus-sion, and it’s as well-played as one wouldexpect from these two, who were both recip-ients of Lifetime Achievement Awards at theannual Elly Awards Ceremony, sponsored bythe Sacramento Area Regional TheatreAlliance a few weeks ago.

Claudio and Wheatley give masterful per-formances, as one would expect. DirectorMark Heckman must surely have delightedin working with them, as they bring a naturalquality to the conflict.

The Sunset Limited does suffer, however,from an excess of talkiness that is only res-cued by the talent that Claudio and Wheatleybring to the—quite literal—table. The deepideas are much better handled when the twoactors are illustrating them with narrativesabout their characters’ lives or with a dash ofhumor. In fact, what happens here is that thequality of the performances serves to revealthe flaws in the play quite clearly.

And, like all of McCarthy’s work, The SunsetLimited play revels in moral ambiguity: It takesa high caliber of acting to do that sort of role jus-tice. In this particular case, justice is served.

—Kel Munger

The Sunset Limited, 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$17. Actor’s Theatre of Sacramento at the Three PennyTheatre, 1723 25th Street in the California Stage complex; (916) 501-6104; www.actinsac.com. Through November 18.

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Where am I? What month is it? Did they have the election? Sorry, it’s just that I’ve been in a screening of Cloud Atlas, and it feels like I’ve been gone forever.

Not in a good way.The problem isn’t that the movie’s three

hours long. The problem is that it feels 30 hours long. But I shouldn’t say “the” problem. Really, it’s one of several. Because if you can have several plots whirling around simultane-ously within a single film, you can have several simultaneous problems. That’s what Cloud Atlas proves.

Written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, it was adapted from David Mitchell’s novel. While admiringly familiar with Mitchell’s work, your correspondent is big enough to admit he hasn’t read this particular novel. How could he, having been stuck in the movie for half his life? But the Internet says there are six distinct stories at play in Cloud Atlas, and I’m so exhausted by now, that I’ll just say yes, fine, that sounds about right.

The outermost framework of the story’s setting, a primitive, sea-adjacent woodland, is described as “106 winters after the Fall.” Others, then, are litanies of prelapsarian tedium—respectively the Pacific Ocean in the 19th century, England in the 1930s, San Francisco in the 1970s, England again in the present day and Korea in 2144. Each has its own hokey melodrama to contend with, usually to do with stifled lives seeking some manner of liberty or consummation.

They’re woven together by countless self-delighted segues, plus several lead actors pros-thetically gunked up to play multiple roles. The intended effect is an awe of human connected-ness, but the result is closer to the giddily apocalyptic recurrence of Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, except criminally less fun. For all the attention it draws to its stars—including but not limited to Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant and Susan

Sarandon—Cloud Atlas has a way of treating them all as puttylike extras. Maintaining his fine touch, Whishaw is the best of the lot. Hanks delivers some substance—and some rotten ham. Bae has a hard time in English; Berry goes bland; Broadbent, broad; Sturgess, soft; and sameness sets in all around—which is not the same as unity.

Well, maybe de-emphasizing people is a way to emphasize ideas. Cloud Atlas does have breathy high-minded platitudes about freedom, music, science, journalism, literature and love. What intentional humor it has is low and crass. Maybe these are populist touches. Admittedly, my audience laughed a few times—perhaps most robustly at the moment when a critic got thrown off of a skyscraper balcony.

But cheese is cheese. To call Cloud Atlas “ambitious,” as people already have and maybe always will, is to hedge on questions about its actual entertainment value or respect for audience intelligence.

The book, I understand, is a puzzle of plea-sure—or, if you prefer, a vast sanctuary in which the readerly imagination becomes entwined with the writerly one. The movie is a booklet of vouchers for sweep and spectacle. Doesn’t it defeat the purpose of an epic to keep dicing it up into shorthanded mini-epics? Soon enough—soonness being relative here—it seems like a film that exists more to challenge the notion of unfilimability than to pay forward whatever inspiration its source material may once have provided. Compulsively digressive, Cloud Atlas the movie nullifies its own suspense. After a while, each return to any particular storyline brings only a pang of resentment that none in particular has yet been wrapped up. Rather than boggle the mind, it benumbs.

The tone, too, is a poorly tossed salad: geriatric farce here, gloomy dystopian satire there, not enough real flavor anywhere. Grand camera moves and music swells nudge a theo-retical awareness of deep feeling, but under these circumstances, real emotional investment is fleeting at best. Somewhere along the loopy line, one character asks another how he knew they might become friends. The other points at his eyes and says, “All you need.” So true. And yet here’s a movie overflowing with so much more than it needs. As you read this, someone somewhere may be going into a panic of wondering whether it’ll ever end. Ω

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4ArgoIn November 1979, as Iranian revolu-tionaries overrun the U.S. Embassy in

Tehran and take the staff hostage, sixAmericans manage to escape and find refugein the residence of the Canadian ambassador(Victor Garber). A CIA exfiltration expert(Ben Affleck) hatches an elaborate coverstory to smuggle the Americans out dis-guised as members of a Hollywood film crew.Director Affleck and writer Chris Terrio fic-tionalize a real-life story, the CIA componentof which wasn’t declassified until 1997—andis here emphasized somewhat to the detri-ment of the Canadian contribution, whichwas considerable and highly risky. Still, it’s acrackling good suspense thriller, told withmounting tension and just the right splashesof humor. John Goodman plays Oscar-win-ning makeup artist (and CIA contractor)John Chambers. J.L.

3Atlas Shrugged: Part 2The second third of Ayn Rand’s longnovel comes to the screen with an

entirely new cast and director (John Putch);only producers John Aglialoro and HarmonKaslow and writer Brian Patrick O’Toole(joined by Duke Sandefur and Duncan Scott)are back from before. Still, the result is thesame: a respectable effort hampered less byits limited budget than by the dogmatic con-trivances of Rand’s plot and the straw-manpolemics of her wooden, declamatory dia-logue. Samantha Mathis steps easily in asrailroad magnate Dagny Taggart; JasonBeghe is less successful as Hank Rearden(speaking in a raspy whisper like a dinner-theater Clint Eastwood). As with Part I,Rand’s detractors will hate the movie asmuch as they do her, but her fans will besatisfied, both of them for the same rea-sons. J.L.

3FrankenweenieYoung Victor Frankenstein (voice byCharlie Tahan) applies elementary-

school science and native genius to bring hisdog back to life after it’s run over by a car—but keeping the secret opens a Pandora’s boxof problems. Writer-director Tim Burtonremakes his 1984 live-action short as a black-and-white stop-motion feature—literallyreanimated—with mixed results. It’s an odd,not-always-comfortable blend of sweetnessand doleful gloom, with dozens of in-joke ref-erences to 1930s horror movies that fewviewers under 30 will get. Burton has plowedthis ground before (The Nightmare BeforeChristmas, Corpse Bride), and it’s not thatfertile; this one feels like exactly what it is: apadded-out short. The melancholy atmos-phere sometimes plays as lack of energy, butit’s still an interesting novelty. J.L.

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to baby-sit her kid brother (Jackson Nicoll).Then, she loses the boy when he wanders offand falls in with a lovesick 7-Eleven clerk(Thomas Middleditch). She goes searchingfor her brother with her best friend (JaneLevy) and two nerds (Thomas Mann, OsricChau) in tow. This may not be the worstmovie of the year (Abraham Lincoln: VampireHunter is a hard act to follow), but it’s prob-ably the most amateurish. Max Werner’sscript recycles the worst clichés of every

teen big-night comedy since AmericanGraffiti, larding them over with dumb gagsthat thud like stifled belches. Acting neverrises above high-school level, not even frompros like Chelsea Handler and Ana Gasteyer, sothe fault must lie with first-time (mis)directorJosh Schwartz. J.L.

2Here Comes the BoomA high-school teacher (Kevin James)springs into action on behalf of his

school’s music teacher (Henry Winkler),whose job is about to be eliminated by theircash-strapped school. James’ plan: to raisethe needed money by becoming a mixed-martial arts fighter. Try to imagine a bizarrehybrid of Rocky, Warrior and Mr. Holland’sOpus produced by Adam Sandler and direct-ed by Frank Coraci—the accomplice in sev-eral of Sandler’s cinematic crimes—thenyou’ll have an idea of this dim-bulb rabble-rousing comedy. Fortunately, it’s not as badas it might have been, mainly thanks toJames—who co-wrote with Allan Loeb andRock Reuben, and who brings a surprisinghangdog dignity to his performance (morethan the movie deserves). There are a fewhearty laughs scattered here and there, andSalma Hayek for romance. J.L.

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they want dead back 30 years to be offedand disposed of. The catch is that eachassassin will someday have to kill his olderself, thus “closing the loop.” When one suchlooper (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) tries to closehis loop, the old boy he will be in 30 years(Bruce Willis) has some surprises up hissleeve. Director Rian Johnson’s script is awildly convoluted ride. It plays as if he madeit up as he went along, and it doesn’t alwaysmake sense, even on its own sci-fi terms.But the movie has an irresistible energy anda don’t-give-a-damn unpredictability thatholds your attention and keeps you guessing.Emily Blunt plays a farmer caught in thecrossfire, Jeff Daniels portrays a cold-blooded gang lord and Paul Dano is a lucklessfellow looper. J.L.

3Pitch PerfectA college student (Anna Kendrick) isdragooned into a campus a capella

singing group, where her experimentalnature clashes with the conservative styleof the group’s self-appointed leader (AnnaCamp). Kay Cannon’s script (based, ever soloosely, on a book by Mickey Rapkin) paro-dies, by faithful imitation, the silly adoles-cent soap opera of Glee, with plenty of sly

winks at the audience, congratulating themon having such a knowing postmodern senseof humor. Broadly directed by Jason Moore,the story grows tiresome before long; whatredeems the movie is the musical numbers,energetically danced and sung, hopefully (butmaybe not) in the actors’ own voices. (Oddlyenough, though, Kendrick and Camp’s groupdoesn’t sing a capella at the climactic com-petition: It’s accompanied by an unseen per-cussionist.) J.L.

1SinisterA true-crime writer (Ethan Hawke)moves his family into the house

where an entire family was murdered—except for one child who disappeared. In theattic, he finds a stash of home movies datingback to 1959, snuff films showing not only themurders in this house, but other familiesbeing slashed, torched and drowned. Writer-director Scott Derrickson does absolutelynothing right. His characters—especiallyHawke’s—are incredibly stupid even by therock-bottom standards of don’t-go-in-that-dark-room trash like this; his “supernatu-ral” explanation stumbles into accidentalself-parody; and he can’t muster any sus-pense or decent scares. He doesn’t evenseem to know anything about the Super 8movie format his nitwit plot hinges on.Hawke’s career bottoms out with a thud; itcan only get better from here. J.L.

2Taken 2Liam Neeson returns as the CIA agentwhose daughter (Maggie Grace) was

kidnapped back in 2008. This time, inIstanbul, Neeson and his ex-wife (FamkeJanssen) are snatched by the vengefulfather of the original villain—and daughtergets away to help Dad free himself by follow-ing his orders over her cellphone. WritersLuc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen presstheir luck by trying to recycle their earliersuccess, but they can’t wring another storyout of it; they just repeat the old one, withflourishes that make it less credible, lesssuspenseful and less satisfying than it wasbefore. They compound their mistake bybringing in the aptly named Olivier Megatonto direct. Megaton employs his usual style,hammering away at us like a bully in a bar.The ending sets us up for—shudder!—Taken3, 4 and 5. J.L.

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4How to Survive a PlagueDavid France’s documentary chronicles the turbulent formative years of ACT UP, a sociallyessential and historically momentous response to the AIDS epidemic. Working with a well-

assembled archive-footage mosaic, France builds a group portrait of unequivocally heroicactivists organizing themselves under apocalyptic duress, raging against unconscionably sluggishdrug research and regulation, and most certainly earning the authority implied by the film’s title.One through-line is the eloquent, desperate fury of Bob Rafsky, the man who was told “I feel yourpain” by President Bill Clinton, before being told off by him. “The question,” Rafsky says else-where, “is what does a decent society do with people who hurt themselves because they’rehuman?” In the grand scheme to which France remains warmly receptive, even the group’sinfighting yields hard-won understanding, and points the way toward a deeply touching epiloguethat summons much power from simple images of living, aging faces. J.K.

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A fever for the flavor Massive Delicious fuses reggae, soul, funk and jazz to craft a big sound and tight community

Massive Delicious isn’t just the name of the band—it’s a moniker that describes the group’s scene and its sound. This is an act that blends reggae, soul, funk and jazz into big, tasty dubtastic grooves for large crowds of cute and costumed danc-ers—creating a mass of delicious energy, rhythm and movement.

The genre-defying group may also be one of the hardest-working bands in Sacramento. Along with troupes such as Zuhg and Arden Park Roots, the band’s part of a local live-music scene that exemplifies a DIY ethic—one built upon artists that are young, produce their own music festivals and, perhaps most importantly, seem to understand that part of making a living as a musician is paying attention to the “business” part of “show business.”

Massive Delicious, indeed.Of course, sometimes everyday life gets in

the way of show business and art. The band tours constantly—it recently embarked on an 11-state, 30-shows-in-35-nights trek with Zuhg that culiminates Wednesday, October 31, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub (2708 J Street)—so much so, that even its own members can’t always keep up.

Josh Rosato, Massive Delicious’s drummer, for example, wasn’t able to join bassist Andrew Conn and singer-guitarist Dylan Crawford on the current tour because his straight gig as a music teacher kept him at home.

It was weird not heading out on the road with this band, Rosato admits, but it also felt good to have time off after a tour-intensive summer.

“We’ve gigged almost every day from April to August. Then, [the rest of the band] went on a five-week tour,” says Rosato, who will, however, be onstage for the band’s homecoming show.

With nearly an album’s worth of material ready to record, Massive Delicious is also set to return to the studio in January.

On the road, Zuhg drummer Russell “Rooster” Lundgren filled in for Rosato—a natural fit, as the two bands have integrated their members ever since Massive Delicious relocated from the East Coast to Sacramento in November 2011. In addition to Lundgren’s substitute percussion work, for example,

Conn and Crawford also play in both bands.

“We played some shows with Zuhg, and they needed a bass player. Then Dylan sat in with them, and everybody really dug it, and now it’s a big orgy,” Rosato explains. “There’s just three of us in Massive Delicious, so we can keep the jam open for other musicians to jump in.”

So how, exactly, did three college kids attending Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music wind up endlessly touring and smashing festivals?

It’s a classic story: Three guys form a reggae jam band. Things start to go well, and the three guys decide to move to Los Angeles. Things don’t go so well there, however, and the trio ends up in Sacramento, because that’s

where the bass player grew up. Then, things start going well again.

It’s also a classic phrase: “Ended up in Sacramento.” As if most people who move here have no plan or no choice. In this case, that underlying reason may be true, but it’s proof that sometimes “settling” also means making the smarter, more advantageous choice.

Sacramento, Rosato explains, may not be as high-profile of a music city as, say, Boston or Los Angeles, but it’s one that takes care of its own.

“I’m very happy that we ended up here. [There’s] more of a community here than a competition,” Rosato says. “All the bands [in Sacramento] support each other a lot more. It’s very refreshing.” Ω

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TownHouse’s last stand: Who didn’t worry that, during some larger-than-life moment at a sold-out bass-bumper blowout, the TownHouse Lounge’s second floor would come crashing down onto its first?

Hell, I was convinced of such a calamity one night a few years back during a capacity-crowd Chk Chk Chk gig at the much-loved, much-loathed club. The band hadn’t played Sacto in a while—I believe now-defunct bruisers Mayyors also were on the bill, just to rub it in—and the two-story ToHo at 1517 21st Street brimmed with off-the-chain vibes. Upstairs was a mishmash of sweaty undulation, bodies so knotted hip to hip that you couldn’t even glimpse the venue’s black-and-white checkered floor beneath your feet. And this humid stink permeated the squarish, low-ceilinged room, but it was a ribald-if-ripe revelry worth enduring: a night of Sacto rock legends at a special funky place.

But then Chk Chk Chk broke into “Must Be the Moon”—arguably the guys’ most popular hit, what with its cruising bassline and four-on-the-floor thumps—and I was more than a little bit uneasy about the struc-tural efficacy of TownHouse’s upper half. Basically, it was a moment of panic. The ceiling was gonna cave in. We were done for, for sure. Of course, this was not our fate.

And it likely will never happen: ToHo will close its doors at the end of October after nearly a decade of grimy grooves and infamous good times.

DJ Shaun Slaughter was one of the pioneering promoters who rescued TownHouse from nightlife irrele-vance some years ago, around 2005. He (smartly) recognized the space’s potential for stacking pancakes: dancing downstairs and bands such as Wallpaper upstairs. But, perhaps more importantly, TownHouse’s owner, Desmond Reynoso—who I’ve known over the years simply as “Desi”—was game for anything.

For instance: At one of Slaughter’s regular birthday soirees, the deejay rented a mechanical bull. First, what club owner in their right mind is gonna let Shaun Slaughter transport hundreds of pounds of vibrating faux cattle into his club? Exactly. Secondly: “We had the guy begrudgingly lug it up the stairs,” Slaughter recounted, “and brought in, like, a million bails of hay.”

Trouble. And by the night’s end, clubgoers had ripped the hay from the bails and festooned the entire club with straw, from the bar to the

deejay booth. “It was seriously nuts,” the deejay said. And Desi didn’t fire anyone. Kudos to the chaos.

But the end of those nuts days is nigh. And, as Slaughter shared recently on Facebook, there aren’t too many other free-for-all options in Sacto’s nightlife scene. “Despite it’s flaws, [TownHouse] was an AMAZING place to cut loose,” he wrote, “and somehow created this very weird, no holds barred vibe no other venue could duplicate.”

This past Friday, I did what any intrepid and appreciative music journalist should do—admittedly, after a handful of cocktails—and tripped into TownHouse just before midnight for one last hurrah. And those couple hours before last call were a blur of boozy boneheaded-ness: DJ Roger serenading a filled floor of butt wigglers upstairs, DJ Whores downstairs driving a packed dance floor with bassy techno and house, Slaughter sneak-ing me behind the bar for a shot of bourbon. It was dizzying, probably embarrassing—but one of riches.

So, why not give the old ToHo a go this Friday, October 26, with Slaughter and Roger’s annual Halloween party? DJ Adam J joins the team, too, and the place will be decked out as a “haunted forest.” (Again, what other local club owner’s gonna allow that?)

Sure, TownHouse’s bathrooms are hardly the Four Seasons’. And yes, the bar often ran out of liquor. And Grimey wasn’t just its most popular night. But the old 1910 building—with its “secret” back staircase, chatterbox parking lot filled with ciggie suckers and Sega Genesis console at the bar—filled a void. And will be missed.

Meanwhile, DJ Whores’ Grimey night surely will land new digs. And Slaughter says Midtown BarFly (1119 21st Street), which has settled in to the former Club 21 spot, and the new Purgatory Restaurant & Nightclub venue—you know, heaven upstairs and hell downstairs—on J and 16th streets could be future homes for his Friday nights. Change, except in the case of Gov. Mitt Romney, can be a good thing.

“But I also can’t help feeling like we’re losing one of the last divey, dirty and fun to party in, spots in Sacramento,” Slaughter lamented.

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Clockwork HeroOld Ironsides, 9 p.m., $12

If you were born before October 27, 1991, then scrape together $12 and head to Old Ironsides on Friday for a night of music sure to make your ears ring. Guitars, aggressive riffs, drums and an outlaw attitude will greet you at the door, courtesy of local Internet station Threat Con Radio. Stockton-based Clockwork Hero—fronted by Sam York and known for melodic vocals over some of the area’s most aggressive riffs—will join 

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Be Brave Bold RobotBeatnik Studios, 8 p.m., $5-$10

Local acoustic-folk popsters Be Brave Bold Robot make amusing music. Whether it’s Dean Haakenson spitting out humorous, tongue-twisting lyrics on “Bigelow’s (Wish I Was),” the band diving into the absurd “Were I to Be a Woman” or the imagery it provides 

(its description of the traditional minivan family 

in “Gridlocked” is subtly hysterical)—there is much to enjoy. The group’s wordplay is also quite clever: The potentially provoca-tive rhyming opportunities on “Take a Deep Breath” veer in unexpected directions. And sometimes, titles alone are downright silly (read: “Hecka Stuff”). Combining traditional acoustic folk pop with viola, violin and banjo, these guys (and gals!) create engaging tunes. 2421 17th Street, www.bebraveboldrobot.com.

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26FRI

Hangtown Halloween BallEl Dorado County Fairgrounds, 1:45 p.m., $60-$160

Pitch a tent, bring a costume and jam-band groove to the Hangtown Halloween Ball. With three stages, three days of music ’til the wee hours of the morning and on-site camp-ing, it’s like a baby Bonnaroo. Americana jam band Railroad Earth (pictured) will play all three days, including an improvised score to the film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A Saturday-night tribute to the Beastie Boys via Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe will feature mem-bers of Slightly Stoopid. Other acts include 

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Xochitl Hermosillo. With her acoustic gui-tar, Xochitl writes material that dances along the image of innocent teeny-bopper princess, but her lyrics are both enter-taining and clever. Xochitl’s voice in her original “The Chico Song” channels a bit of an upbeat Kimya Dawson at first listen, but her harmonies and songbirdlike trills separate her completely. Lyrics in Xochitl’s tunes consist of video-game references, stories of first loves and, of course, break-ups. 3512 Stockton Boulevard,  www.facebook.com/xochitlofficial.

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Hip Hop Halloween Dance PartyThunder Valley Casino Resort, 9 p.m., $45.50-$55.50

Isn’t it unfortunate that seminal hip-hop acts are relegated to obscure venues while the new generation forgets about them? Such is the case with the three acts performing in the Hip Hop Halloween Dance Party: Naughty by Nature (pictured), the Sugarhill Gang and Kool Moe Dee. I mean, it’s all the way in Lincoln, where all those retirement communites are. Still, expect to see hip-hop purists singing and/or B-boying to songs such as “Hip Hop Hooray,” “Rapper’s Delight” and “Wild Wild 

West.” If you can’t break-dance, just do the moves 

from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air during the Sugarhill Gang’s “Apache.” Google it.  1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln,  www.thundervalleyresort.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

HIP-HOP

27SAT

BusdriverHarlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 8:30 p.m., $12

Busdriver is the kind of emcee who is too weird to exist anywhere but underground. 

He raps a mile a minute, trying to cram as much 

thought and contradiction into each verse as possible. His rhymes are filled with inner turmoil, blunt honesty, strange humor and lots of tangents in nearly every line. The music is dizzyingly fast paced—the perfect backdrop for his off-the-wall delivery. Busdriver’s sound is far removed from mainstream rap, so he attracts a certain amount of hip-hop purists. Yet, because he’s so different, he also attracts people who don’t otherwise listen to rap music. 2708 J Street, www.busdriverse.com.

—Aaron Carnes

HIP-HOP

28SUN

Sacramento Jazz OrchestraJB’s Lounge, 5 p.m., $5-$10

The nonprofit 18-piece Sacramento Jazz Orchestra has been on a mission since 2009 to “preserve the rich heritage of jazz, nur-ture its growth, and encourage the appre-ciation of America’s original music … as a viable art form.” This eloquent body of full-time, professional musicians and jazz educa-tors (including Capital Jazz Project veterans Joe Gilman, Mike McMullen and Rick Lotter) continues its laudable quest this Sunday 

with tunes plucked from the play-books of Count Basie, Charles Mingus, 

Stan Kenton, Thad Jones, Maria Schneider, and such arrangers as SJO trumpeter Joe Mazzaferro, Bill Holman, Kenny Werner and Bob Brookmeyer. 1401 Arden Way,  www.sacjazzorchestra.com.

—Mark Halverson

JAZZ

29MON

Other LivesHarlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 7 p.m., $15

Oklahoma quintet Other Lives is like a land-scape painter working in deep majestic colors and late-night shades, fashioning moody cin-ematic set pieces. Frontman Jesse Tabish’s willowy tenor croon has a freak-folk air, but 

the music chan-nels chamber-pop 

sophistication through dreamy, undulating arrangements. Think Meddle-era Pink Floyd attempting to fit in at a Rufus Wainwright party. Other Lives is certainly cute enough but could flub the small talk. Even short tracks like the two-and-a-half minute “Woodwind” are epic and expansive. At times, the twilight orchestral swells recall such tex-tured U.K. piano-pop acts as Coldplay or the Editors but more NPR and less darkly roman-tic. 2708 J Street, www.otherlives.com.

—Chris Parker

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PACIFIC GUITAR ENSEMBLE, 8pm, $20 THE HOBART BROTHERS, LI’L SISHOBART, JON DEE GRAHAM; 8pm, $15

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover CHRONAEXUS, HUMAN FILTH, ROTTENFUNERAL, VALDUR; 9pm Karaoke, 9pm, no cover Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover Karaoke, 9pm Tu; GARY BUSEY AMBER

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THE NUANCE, 7:30pm M; Karaoke, 9pmTu; Open-mic, 8:30pm W, no cover

World’s Worst Doctors Comedy Improv, 8:30pm, $5

WALKING SPANISH, JULIANNA ZACHARIOU; 8:30pm, $5

AJ JOHNSON, JIM FUNK, LOVELORN DUO; 8:30pm, $5

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DJ Billy Lane, 9pm, $10, free before 9pm DJ Elliot Estes, 9pm, $15 DJ Mike Moss, 9pm, $20 Pirate and wench party w/ DJStonerokk, 9pm-2am, $10

DJs Gabe Xavier and Peeti V, 8:30pm-2am W, $10

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ALMA DESNUDA, PUSHTONAWANDA;9pm, $10 THE RIPOFFS, 9:30pm, $5 STEPHEN YERKEY, 5:30-7:30pm Tu, no

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Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm,$2

The Spectacular Theatrics of Hell’s Belleand the Good Intentions play, 8pm, $10

The Spectacular Theatrics of Hell’s Belleand the Good Intentions, play, 8pm, $10

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TOO MUCH FICTION, KING NEVER, MIKE JAMES; 8:30pm, $6

THE GRAVEDIGGERS SOCIAL CLUB, 8pmW, $5

AUTUMN SKY, ALYSSA COX & THE FLAT-LAND BAND, CHELSEA HUGHES; 9pm

BABS JOHNSON GANG, LOYALTY ISBLUE, HE HATE ME; 8pm, $3-$5

IN OUR TIME, SECOND TO LAST, ON MY HONOR, MISSIVE; 8pm, $5

THE EERIES, STANLEY, THE SEARCH;8pm Tu, $5

MR P CHILL, MS. VYBE, CENTURY GOTBARS, LIGHT SKINNED CREOLE; 7pm, $5

Nerd Night: Dorktoberfest Halloweenparty, 7pm W, $1

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HELMET, TOADIES, UME, ALLINADAY;8pm, call for cover

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Skratchpad Sacramento, 9pm, no cover WARP 11, 9pm, $8 CASH PROPHETS, 9pm, call for cover ANGELSPIT, 8pm W, $10

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JONNY CRAIG, THE SEEKING, HEADLINES; 7:30pm, $13

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Top 40, 9pm, no cover Top 40, Mashups, 9pm, no cover DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover Top 40 dance mixes, 9pm W, no cover

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Harvest boonGot all my plants in and trimmed. I had a really good harvest this

year. What’s the best way to store all of this cannabis?

—Weed Is Not ZucchiniNo more than a quarter-inch stem. No lollipops. No crows feet. Huh, what? Well, hello, there. Me? Nothing. I’m just sitting at an undisclosed location in the Emerald Triangle, trimming until my arms fall off. As seasonal

labor goes, I’d rather trim weed than pull live halibut from a fishing line.

Ah, yes, you had a question. OK: Once you get all your cannabis collected and trimmed, make

sure it’s nice and dry. If your weed is too wet, mold can become a big problem. The best way to store your weed is in a glass jar. Mason jars work well. There are a few other companies that also sell nice custom-made jars. Airtight is best. Tupperware and

other plastics are just OK. And make sure your jars are clean. You don’t want your weed to end up smelling

like mango yogurt or Grandma’s homemade salsa.The biggest dangers to your stash, besides law

enforcement, are heat and sunlight. These two villains will strip your pot of all of its flavor and potency, so find a cool, dark place to keep your stash. The freezer works, if you have enough space and don’t live with children or

moochers. If you’re fancy, you may want to use the wine cellar. You could always dig a hole in the ground and bury your jars,

but I would only do that with my I’m-saving-this-for-the-end-of-the-world weed. For optimal results, open your jar every once in a while. Check the dryness of the bud.

Humidipak (www.humidipak.com) makes little packets you can use to control the humidity in your jars. Everyone has their own preference for how dry they like their pot. Use different packets until you find the right one. Weed will remain potent and delicious for at least a few months if stored properly. Bon appétit!

Harvest is going great. The thing is, I have a lot of marijuana trimmings and shake. What can I do with it all?

—Shake ItThis is a good problem. It used to be that people couldn’t give shake away. Now, with the advent of the cannabis-infused edible industry as well as the rising popularity of making hashish (by the way, making butane hash oil in California is against the law), shake has become a valuable commodity.

I would use the best trimmings to make cold-water hash. A quick search on YouTube will show you more ways to make hash than you would have thought possible. The other, leafier parts can be used for tinctures and salves.

It is also really easy to make cannabis-infused olive oil in a Crock-Pot. Dump in a bunch of shake, pour in some olive oil, set the pot to its lowest setting and leave it be for a few hours. It will make your house smell, though, and the more shake that is used, the stronger the oil will be. Let it cool. Strain it well, pressing on the shake to extract every bit of oil. Store the oil in a cool, dry place. Keep away from children. Cannabis-infused olive oil always makes a great gift. And, if you are extra crafty, you may want to look into making cannabis-infused lotion or balm, which many people use to help with arthritis and other joint and muscle pain. Ω

Weed will remain potent and delicious for a few months if

stored properly.

Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento

comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

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Dress you upLeendah Muñoz-Roberts made her firstcostume when she was just a child.“My parents would always get me themost unattractive clothing, so I start-ed just cutting things up and makingstuff out of it,” she says. Now 39, theWoodland native turned her passioninto Leendah’s Custom Designs, herhome-based seamstress-and-cus-tom-clothing-design business. She’salso worked at Cheap Thrills (1712 LStreet) since 1994, helping others suitup for Halloween, parties and evenconcerts at Ace of Spades. Sherecently found a few minutes betweenhelping customers to speak with SN&Rabout local costume culture, super-hero movies and zombie weddings.

How did you begin acareer as a seamstress?I couldn’t go to college because my parentswouldn’t let me go to art school. They did-n’t think it was good. So, I moved out [andleft Woodland], and … my very first job washere at Cheap Thrills. That’s actually whatled me into full-blown costume design andeverything.

How many costumes doyou have at home?I have over 100 costumes—lots of bits andpieces, too. A lot of them are handmadestuff that I make for photo shoots, becauseI like playing dress up with my friends.That’s my passion.

How often do you wear costumes?Every October and whenever I’m doing aphoto shoot. And they’re usually prettyspontaneous. We play dress up to go to themovies and things like that—any kind ofevent at the Crest Theatre, or even at thedrive-in. We like to do takeovers at thedrive-in: You know, like when [Pirates of theCaribbean] came out … we dressed up andacted like pirates out in the drive-in, justbecause it’s fun.

Is Sacramento really biginto dress-up culture?I can tell you that since 9/11, things kind ofchanged, and people’s attitudes changed. …People wanted something fun to do, andthey embraced costumes, and theyembraced the whole Zombie Walk[Sacramento] and just everything thatSacramento [people are] doing to keep theirchin up. … Costumes are incorporated intojust about any event you can think of—evengoing to shows at Ace of Spades. I have peo-ple coming in [who] want to get dressed upas the band that they’re going to go see. I’mlike, “Hey, rock ’n’ roll. Let’s do this!” … Youtell them when and where, and they’ll bethere, and they will get geared up. It’s awe-some. I’ve never seen a town like it.

What’s the go-tocostume for this season?For the last two to three years … everybodywants to be a superhero because of all themovies that [came] out. I mean, movies are

what influence what Halloween [costumes]are going to be. That’s the bottom line.

Do you have a kids’ section?We do have a kids’ section coming up. Wedon’t carry it year-round; it’s only forHalloween.

What are you doing for Halloween?What am I not doing is the question, becauseevery weekend [in October] for Halloweenhere [at Cheap Thrills], we have to dress up.That’s just mandatory. And, if I wanted to, Icould do it every day, just to give it spice. …So, I’m thinking this weekend it’s probablygoing to be Day of the Dead. It’s comfort-able, and I have everything at home.

What’s the coolestcostume that you’veever seen or ever done?The coolest costume we’ve ever done isthe Headless Horseman. The reason it’sinteresting and awesome is because weused our own stuff. It was something wecreated out of a large frock. And the waythat we rigged it to make it work was

incredible. And it was creepy. … It was astage production. To me, still, that one res-onated in my mind because, it was like,“Wow, we really did a number on this.”

I heard Cheap Thrillsdoes weddings. Yes, we’ll do whatever you tell us. If yousay, “Hey, I need to do this,” we will findeverything that you need. We have donewedding parties, we have donequinceañeras; we’ve done all kinds ofthings. If you have a theme, we’re the peo-ple you want to go to. If you’re looking to dojust formal regular stuff, we don’t [do it].We’ll try to do it, but that’s not what wespecialize in.

What are some themesyou’ve done?If you want to do zoot-suit weddings, 1940s,the whole [swing-era] look, we got it. Wehave people who do steampunk weddings,gothic weddings, Old West weddings, ’70sweddings—basically, anything that youcould do for Halloween. We’ve done zombieweddings. They do it at the cemetery: Getmarried at the cemetery and [dress up as]zombies. It’s hilarious. Ω

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the comingdays, many of your important tasks will bebest accomplished through caginess andcraftiness. Are you willing to work behindthe scenes and beneath the surface? I sus-pect you will have a knack for navigatingyour way skillfully and luckily throughmazes and their metaphorical equivalents.The mists may very well part at your com-mand, revealing clues that no one else butyou can get access to. You might also havea talent for helping people to understandelusive or difficult truths. Halloween cos-tume suggestions: spy, stage magician,ghost whisperer, exorcist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The comingweek could have resemblances to the holi-day known as Opposite Day. Things peoplesay may have meanings that are differentor even contrary to what they supposedlymean. Qualities you usually regard as liabil-ities might temporarily serve as assets,and strengths could seem problematical orcause confusion. You should also be wary ofthe possibility that the advice you get frompeople you trust may be misleading. Forbest results, make liberal use of reversepsychology, freaky logic and mirror magic.Halloween costume suggestion: the oppo-site of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I don’t have abig problem with your tendency to contra-dict yourself. I’m rarely among theconsistency freaks who would prefer you tostick with just one of your many selvesinstead of hopscotching among all nine. Infact, I find your multilevel multiplicity inter-esting and often alluring. I take it as a signthat you are in alignment with the funda-mentally paradoxical nature of life. Havingsaid all that, however, I want to alert you toan opportunity that the universe is cur-rently offering you, which is to feel unified,steady and stable. Does that sound evenvaguely enticing? Why not try it out for afew weeks? Halloween costume suggestion:an assemblage or collage of several of yourdifferent personas.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocadotree may produce so much fruit that thesheer weight of its exuberant creationcauses it to collapse. Don’t be like that inthe coming weeks, Cancerian. Withoutcurbing your luxuriant mood, simply moni-tor your outpouring of fertility so that itgenerates just the right amount of beautifulblooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic,but not unconstrained or overwrought orrecklessly lavish. Halloween costume sug-gestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a richartist or an exotic dancer with a bowl offruit on your head.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your fatherdidn’t beat you or scream at you or molestyou. If he did, I am so sorry for your suf-fering. I also hope that your father didn’tignore you or withhold his best energyfrom you. I hope he didn’t disappear forweeks at a time and act oblivious to yourbeauty. If he did those things, I mourn foryour loss. Now, it’s quite possible that youwere spared such mistreatment, Leo.Maybe your dad gave you conscientiouscare and loved you for who you really are.But whatever the case might be, this is theright time to acknowledge it. If you’re oneof the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. Ifyou’re one of the wounded ones, begin orrenew your quest for serious and intensivehealing. Halloween costume suggestion:your father.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you knowhow to tell the difference between super-stitious hunches and dependableintuitions? Are you good at distinguishingbetween mediocre gossip that’s only 10percent accurate and reliable rumors thatprovide you with the real inside dope? Isuspect that you will soon get abundantopportunities to test your skill in thesetasks. To increase the likelihood of yoursuccess, ask yourself the following ques-tion on a regular basis: Is what you thinkyou’re seeing really there or is it mostly aprojection of your expectations and theo-ries? Halloween costume suggestions: a liedetector, an interrogator with syringes fullof truth serum, a superhero with X-rayvision, a lab scientist.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officiallyprotesting you, Libra. I am staging a walk-out and mounting a demonstration andlaunching a boycott unless you agree to mydemand. And yes, I have just one demand:that you take better care of the neglected,disempowered and underprivileged parts ofyour life. Not a year from now, not whenyou have more leisure time, now! If andwhen you do this, I predict the arrival of aflood of personal inspiration. Halloweencostume suggestion: a symbolic represen-tation of a neglected, disempowered orunderprivileged part of your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fineand yet so terrible to stand in front of ablank canvas,” said French painter PaulCezanne. Many writers make similar com-ments about the excruciating joy they feelwhen first sitting down in front of an emptypage. For artists in any genre, in fact, get-ting started may seem painfully impossible.And yet there can also be a delicious antici-pation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesceinto coherent images or words or music.Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’refacing a comparable challenge in your ownchosen field. Halloween costume sugges-tion: a painter with a blank canvas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Asyou contemplate what you want to be forHalloween, don’t consider any of the follow-ing options: a Thoroughbred racehorsewearing a blindfold, a mythic centaurclanking around in iron boots or a seahorsetrying to dance on dry land. For thatmatter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t comeclose to imitating any of those haplesscreatures even in your non-Halloween life.It’s true that the coming days will be anexcellent time to explore, analyze and dealwith your limitations. But that doesn’tmean you should be overwhelmed andovercome by them. Halloween costume sug-gestions: Harry Houdini, an escapedprisoner, a snake molting its skin.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Doesanyone know where I can find dinosaurcostumes for cats?” asked a Halloweenshopper on Reddit. In the comments sec-tion, someone else said that he needed abroccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bringthis up, Capricorn, because if anyone coulduncover the answers to these questions, itwould be you. You’ve got a magic touchwhen it comes to hunting down solutions tounprecedented problems. Halloween cos-tume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaurcostume.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The LiveMonarch Foundation made a video on howto fix a butterfly’s broken wing(http://tinyurl.com/FixWing). It ain’t easy.You need 10 items, including tweezers, babypowder, toothpicks and glue. You’ve got tobe patient and summon high levels of con-centration. But it definitely can be done.The same is true about the delicate healingproject you’ve thought about attempting onyour own wound, Aquarius. It will requireyou to be ingenious, precise and tender, butI suspect you’re primed to rise to the chal-lenge. Halloween costume suggestion:herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman orother healer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s not agood time to wear Higher Power Spanx orany other girdle, corset or restrictive gar-ment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willingparticipant in any situation that pinches,hampers or confines you. You need to feelexceptionally expansive. In order to thrive,you’ve got to give yourself permission tospill over, think big and wander freely. Asfor those people who might prefer you tokeep your unruly urges in check and yournatural inclinations concealed, tell themyour astrologer authorized you to seize amassive dose of slack. Halloween costumesuggestions: a wild man or wild woman; amythical bird like the garuda or thunder-bird; the god or goddess of abundance.

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